# Burkina Faso: Fighter Criticizes 2020 Negotiations - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2099103154058965251 - Source language: French - Target language: English - Duration: 3:19 - Published: 2026-09-14 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/fr/burkina-faso-un-combattant-d%C3%A9nonce-les-n%C3%A9gociations-de-2020.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations) I think that in 2020, there were negotiations to hold the elections. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=4) So you journalists, I assume you followed it and know what it's like. Maybe there are some things you don't know about, but for us as fighters, that hurts us deeply. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=15) We were deployed in 2020. We received instructions to stop all asymmetric operations. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=25) That means we no longer leave our bases, we remain stationary. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=30) That in itself is bad. It hurts the fighters deeply, the soldiers, to see that. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=36) Worse still, we were taunted. The terrorists taunted us. [0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=41) Ask those who were in Kelbou at the time. [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=43) They called villagers to tell them, to show them money in suitcases, to tell the military that, well, the government cannot fight them. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=50) They were negotiating with them, they even gave them money. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=52) That's what they came to tell us. So, to tell the military and the VDP to lay down their weapons. [0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=57) The people are alive, you can ask around. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=60) And those who forced people to go out at the time, there are soldiers who were punished. [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=64) Those who were in Bourzanga are witnesses. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=66) The VDP were attacked, they had three fallen. The detachment went out to go help bring them back. [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=72) They were also attacked. They were not supported. Worse still, they said, “Who told them to go out?” [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=78) Several people experienced this situation. [1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=80) It undermines morale. So, the soldiers were discouraged. [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=85) They no longer knew what this problem was. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=87) And it persisted so much that people were sent out in detachments just to sit around. sit down. That was the first problem it caused. [1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=94) Secondly, the money that was given to the terrorists, because people saw that. There you go, even those in Dibo can also testify. [1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=101) The vehicles that came, you yourselves, then continued toward Nassoumbou with suitcases. There you go, perhaps the Air Force will have proof. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=109) The money came out. They took that money, equipped themselves, and got well established. And from that moment on, we started hearing children's voices at the post, because they paid for a lot of transmissions, they created a network. [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=123) And once the network was properly created, properly stabilized, they began to destroy all the pylons. [2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=128) We, can no longer be alerted by our people. [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=131) And they, since they have another means of communication. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=135) And they began destroying the entire communication system that existed. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=139) The third negative thing, it cut the link between us and the people. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=146) Imagine being told, “You’re forbidden to go out,” and you sit there. [2:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=150) The people call you. Naaba, they’re here, they’re here, they’re here. [2:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=156) You, you’re forbidden to go out. You have to pretend to patrol, patrol. [2:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=160) The following day again, they’ll say three days, four days. [2:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=163) What do they start telling us? What? Sil kabé zabra po wën. [2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=167) Here is the phrase. That there is no truth in our struggle. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=171) And they see the guys, they call us, but we never come. [2:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=174) You can't tell those people that they're forbidden to go out. [2:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=178) But we're here, each of us is here with our unit. [3:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=181) And in the end, people saw that, they don't tell us anymore, because they think that if they tell us, we won't come. Why would they tell us? [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=188) There have been many consequences. That's what negotiating gets you. It just shifts the problem. [3:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/01cAmqBrywrE/en/burkina-faso-fighter-criticizes-2020-negotiations?t=196) There will be no negotiating. We're going to fight.