Wasted Efforts, Wasted Lives: The Terrorists’ Fatal Choice.

Ouagadougou: Instrumentalized, paid, perhaps deceived, several hundred terrorists who fell this October 2024 in the regions of Centre-North, North, Centre-East, Boucle du Mouhoun, East and Sahel will probably end up devoured by birds of prey and other predators from the Sahelian regions and tropical forests. Yet they had the choice to lay down their arms and participate in the radiant march of Burkina or to persist and die like wild animals hunted and slaughtered.According to Burkina Information Agency, the latest attacks have proven the determination and bravery of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) as well as the Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland (VDP) of Burkina Faso. The recent offensives of the Combatant Forces have been fierce and extremely effective, making it possible to neutralize hordes of criminals attacking peaceful unarmed populations and the Armed Forces.While the terrorists believed they were in conquered territory and safe to carry out their operations, they discovered the powe r of the Burkinabe army's fire, at least for those of them who were lucky enough to escape. Eastern forests were scoured, unwanted visitors dislodged, neutralized, and equipment recovered, including weapons of war with ammunition, machinery, and other logistical equipment.The time for waiting is over, as the hunt is now being conducted to stifle and reduce any desire or threat against the Burkinabe nation. Wasted efforts, lost lives for misguided terrorists engaged on the wrong side in a war whose failure is assured in the face of a people determined to fight and resist all adversity to safeguard the integrity of their territory and their heritage.Looking at these departed souls, most of them young, one wonders what the motives for their actions could be. It is not obvious that they themselves know the real and deep reasons, otherwise, they would proclaim them loudly and claim them in each operation. However, they had been warned, and the message from the President of Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, at the beginning of the month, had been clear: "We will fight until they raise the white flag," because Burkina Faso is one and indivisible, committed to the total reconquest of its national territory.The war imposed on the country since 2015 has caused shivers and sometimes fever at its peak, but the country has always resisted and continued its march, galvanized by the spirit of the martyrs and supported by all people who love peace and justice. The criminals of Rambo, Binguimnonguin, Bourasso, Ouanobia, Djibo, Nassougou, and other localities will no longer have the chance to see this radiant march of Burkina, the new master of its destiny.A return is still possible, a better life can be envisaged for all disillusioned people who still have a shred of patriotism and for whom human life still has meaning. Why sacrifice oneself for unacknowledged and unacknowledgeable interests, which take no account of the lives involved, supporting a disguised recolonization?The adulterated drinks, strong alcohols with unkno wn contents, expired food and pharmaceutical products, and all the infected products abandoned or recovered after the sweeps of the FDS and VDP, as well as the edifying testimonies, have finished convincing of the criminals' ignorance of the political, geopolitical, strategic, and economic implications of this unjust and barbaric war.