Burkina Faso rejects Human Rights Watch report that over 1,800 killed since Ibrahim Traoré took power
Summary: The government says the report, which blamed most of the killings on the military, as "unfounded".
Burkina Faso has rejected a report that said more than 1,800 civilians have been killed in acts amounting to "crimes against humanity" in the three years since Ibrahim Traoré seized power.
The government on Sunday called the Human Rights Watch (HRW) report "false", dismissing the findings as "conjecture and serious unfounded claims".
The report has "only one purpose… to demonise" the country's troops, who have always fought with "professionalism", its statement added.
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