2023-04-19 21:32:21
The president of the transition of Burkina Faso, captain Ibrahim Traoré, signed on Wednesday a decree of “general mobilization” for a period of one year, allowing if necessary the requisition of “young people aged 18 and over” to go and fight. against the jihadists who are bloodying this country.
A press release from the presidency announced “general mobilization” a week ago, but the decree had not yet been signed or published.
It was on Wednesday and it specifies that, in addition to members of the defense and security forces, active or not, “young people aged 18 or over, not members of the national armed forces, physically fit”, will be ” called upon to enlist according to the needs expressed by the competent authorities”.
In addition, underlines one of the fourteen articles of the decree, “the populations can also organize themselves, under the supervision of the defense and security forces to defend their locality against all forms of threats, in particular terrorist groups”.
During the twelve months that will last “the general mobilization” and what the authorities call “the warning”, it is also “appeal to public or private initiatives, citizens of solidarity and contributions to the national effort to fight against terrorism for the benefit, in particular of areas with strong security challenges”, specifies the decree.
It also stipulates that “individual and collective rights and freedoms guaranteed by laws and regulations may in certain cases be restricted or limited”. It specifies, however, that “fundamental rights cannot be derogated from, in particular the right to life, the right not to be subjected to torture, nor to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
In December, Captain Traoré, transitional president resulting from a coup d’etat perpetrated on September 30, 2022, had obtained the green light from the Constitutional Council to issue this decree.
In a separate decree, Captain Traoré also proceeded with the creation of a National Coordination for the Fight against Terrorism (CNCT).
Placed under the authority of Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambela, the CNCT is a device for piloting, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the national strategy for the fight against terrorism.
Burkina Faso, the scene of two military coups in 2022, has been caught since 2015 in a spiral of jihadist violence that appeared in Mali and Niger a few years earlier and which has spread beyond their borders.
The violence has claimed more than 10,000 lives over the past seven years – civilians and soldiers – according to NGOs, and some two million displaced.
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