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Solenzo Massacre
Between March 10 and 11, 2025, militiamen from the pro-government Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland executed at least 130 Fulani civilians in several villages near Solenzo, Boucle du Mouhoun Region, Burkina Faso. Background Much of northern Burkina Faso has been the frontline of an insurgency waged by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara since 2015, with these groups intensifying their attacks on civilians seen as sympathetic to the government since 2019. Within Burkina Faso, ISGS is predominantly active in the tri-border area between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. Since the September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état that saw Ibrahim Traoré rise to power, the Burkinabe government and Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland, VDP auxiliaries have conducted massacres against civilian areas that have killed hundreds of civilians. At the beginning of March, there was an attack by jihadists against VDP in the area and local Fulani ...
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Solenzo
Solenzo is a city located in the province of Banwa in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 .... It is the capital of Banwa Province. Bénéwendé Stanislas Sankara held his campaign's first official rally before the 2015 general election in Solenzo on November 8, 2015. References Populated places in the Boucle du Mouhoun Region Banwa Province {{Banwa-geo-stub ...
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Wassim Nasr
Wasim, Wassim or Waseem () is a masculine given name and surname of Arabic origin, meaning 'Handsome', 'Graceful' or 'Good-Looking'. People *Abbas Wasim Efendi (1689-1760), Ottoman astronomer * Abdul Waseem (born 1964), Pakistani politician *Ahmed Waseem Razeek (born 1994), German footballer *Imad Wasim (born 1988), British-Pakistani cricketer * Mohammad Wasim (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer *Muhammad Waseem (born 1989), Pakistani boxer * Saira Wasim (born 1975), Pakistani artist * Syed Waseem Hussain (born 1972), Pakistani politician *Waseem Abbas (born 1957), Pakistani actor * Waseem Ahmad (born 1977), Pakistani hockey player * Waseem Akhtar (born 1955), Pakistani politician * Waseem Al-Bzour (born 1979), Jordanian football player * Waseem Badami (born 1985), Pakistani journalist * Waseem Bhatti (born 1978), French cricketer * Waseem Shaikh (born 1984), South African actor * Wasim (Guantanamo captive 338), Saudi detainee * Wasim Abusal (born 2004), Palestinian boxer *Wasim Akram ...
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Massacres Of Fula People
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person. The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage". Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing Mass killing is a concept which has been proposed by genocide scholars who wish to define incidents of non-combat killing which are perpetrated by a government or a state. A mass killing is commonly defined as the killing of group members without ..., mass murder, and extrajudicial killing. Etymology ''Massacre'' derives from late 16th century Middle French word ''macacre'' meaning "slaughterhouse" or "butchery". Further origins are dubious, though the word may be related to Latin ''macellum'' "provisions store, butcher shop". The Middle French word ''macecr'' "butchery, carnage" is first recorded in the late 11th century. Its primary us ...
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