![]() ![]() The Associated Press verified the the video was filmed inside a military base and found the family of one of the victims. We’ll kill you one after another.”īurkina Faso’s military has denied responsibility for the killings, which are a potential war crime under international law.Ī video in Burkina Faso showing men in military fatigues walking among the bloodied bodies of boys surfaced on social media in mid-February. “Good-for-nothing! You don’t have anything to do but to kill people. was still alive,” said the man, referring to Adama, whose last name is being withheld by The Associated Press out of concern for the safety of his family. As blood streamed from the jagged wound, the man shooting the video chuckled. Sprinting through the frame, one man came to a halt over Adama and slammed a rock onto his head. ![]() They were surrounded by about a dozen men, many in military fatigues, walking among the bodies, some taking video. Adama lay alongside six other bloodied boys, their hands bound and most stripped to the waist. The next time his family saw him, it was in a harrowing cellphone video circulating on social media in the days after his disappearance. But one day in mid-February, the teen who dreamed of becoming an imam didn’t come home. OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - It was a walk 16-year-old Adama had done countless times, feeding the cows not far from his grandmother’s house in northern Burkina Faso. ![]()
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