Burkinabè civil society is concerned about possible cases of forced recruitment of volunteers for the defense of the homeland (VDP). Since the disappearance on March 22 of Boukari Ouédraogo, president of the Kaya appeal movement, human rights organizations have denounced the arrest of two other members of civil society this weekend of March 25-26. Without news since, they fear that they were recruited by force within the VDP.
In mid-March, during a press conference, Boukari Ouédraogo, president of the Appel de Kaya movement, encouraged Captain Ibrahim Traoré to go to the Centre-Nord region to measure the insecurity in the area. Less than a week later, he was arrested in Kaya on leaving an interview with the president of the transition, visiting the city. And according to witnesses, the order was given to enroll him in the VDP.
An assertion that seemed to be confirmed the next day by the Head of State himself, in a speech to the living forces of the Centre-North. Captain Ibrahim Traoré believed, without quoting him, that Boukari Ouédraogo was playing into the hands of armed groups: “Someone said that Lake Dèm is a hotspot in Kaya. So the enemy understood that. Whoever did this was immediately arrested by a fighter and we hired him immediately to be VDP. »