Attack on east Burkina Faso military post leaves 33 soldiers dead, army says, Uganda police arrest 11 female lawmakers during protest
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For over a decade now, Burkina Faso and other West African countries have been suffering from the ripple effect of Islamic insurgency that escalated from neighbouring Mali and these insurgency have killed thousands of civilians and military officers respectively.
The insurgents activities in Burkina Faso have taken several shapes ranging from incessant shootings and attacks on both military bases and raiding of villages resulting to the killing of innocent Burkinabes.
An attack on a military detachment in east Burkina Faso on Thursday left 33 soldiers dead and 12 injured, the military-led government said, the latest bout of violence in a country locked in fighting against a jihadist insurgency.
The attack on Thursday morning targeted the military detachment of Ougarou, in Burkina Faso's Est Region.
The army said in a statement that the besieged soldiers killed at least 40 "terrorists" before reinforcements arrived.
The violent attacks in Burkina Faso have spiraled in recent months leading to the killing of innocent Burkinabes. Although the military have been accused of killing civilians in their bid to carrying out anti-insurgency operations against the insurgents.
It should be noted that killing of innocent citizens amounts to crime against humanity, although that'll be discussed in a separate post.
Uganda police arrest 11 female lawmakers during protest
As police brutality gets to it's rise in Uganda, most citizens aren't comfortable with the abuse of their human rights by the police, some citizens including members of the Ugandan parliament.
Just before the peaceful protest could begin on Thursday, some female parliamentarians were arrested by the police in order to disrupt the protest. This also amounts to a violation of their constitutional rights as enshrined in the Ugandan constitution.
According to the arrested parliamentarians, they were on their way to the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs to submit a letter for the protest before they were apprehended by the police.
"I strongly condemn the manner in which police this morning arrested the 11 women members of parliament who were peaceful and unarmed. Some are bleeding and for some, the clothes were torn. It was as if they were arresting terrorists," parliament's deputy speaker Thomas Tayebwa said on Twitter.
"Their arrest was shamelessly done at the gates of Parliament. So I don't know if really we are safe if people can be deployed at the gates of parliament just to beat harmless citizens."
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