A video has been shared multiple times online claiming that a group of Fulani militants were killed enroute to Nigeria by Burkinabe army.
The claim is FALSE
An X user, @Nwaadaz, posted the video with a caption stating: “Burkina Faso soldiers killed scores of heavily armed Fulani bandits and terrorists crossing over to Nigeria.”
The video showed a couple of dead bodies in an arid background. It had a series of frames transitioning to show guns, motorcycles, a gun truck and Armoured Personnel Carrier.
While the video has a narrator speaking in French to indicate the video was a news package by a media organization, it ended with a short interview with military officer identified as Lieutenant Colonel Didier Bamouni who is the Commandant des Operations du Theatre national, meaning Commander of the National Theatre Operations Command (COTN).
A reverse image search was conducted after a screenshot was obtained from a part of the video.
The search showed that the video was first posted on an Arabic website, Tanakra media, with the name Abdala Targui on the post while accompanied with the date May 22nd 2022 (2022-05-22).
Another search result showed it was a website belonging to TV5 Monde, a French media platform, posted on May 23. 2022, and had the name Guillaume Villadier alongside it.
It had the bold heading: Burkina Faso: terrorist attack repelled, followed by a short description of “The army says it has foiled an attack by jihadists against a military detachment in the north of the country. Five soldiers are said to have died. Thirty terrorists were reportedly killed.”
The video on the website, which is 76 seconds, credited RTB as the source of the clip while the caption in the video showed the location of the event was Bourzanga, Burkina Faso.
According to Wikipedia, RTB which is an initial for The Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina is the national broadcaster of Burkina Faso.
While the actual report could not be found, it is certain that the video emanated from Burkina Faso and the event occurred in 2022.
Conclusion
Though the video is true and it occurred in Burkina Faso, the corpses shown were not Fulanis but terrorist Islamist jihadists.
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