This evidence-led archive covers one adjudicated political assassination, the unresolved murders of a journalist and three companions, and seven mass-violence files with incomplete individual accountability.
This section records a judicial result after a full trial. The bounded label does not imply that sentences imposed on absent defendants were enforced.
These files document crimes without complete final individual accountability.
Human Rights Watch confirmed at least 133 deaths when JNIM attacked people digging a defensive trench. Higher tolls remain unverified, and no case-specific final convictions were located.
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Sources record about 60, 136 or 156 victims. A prosecutor opened an inquiry, but no final individual conviction was located.
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Human Rights Watch documented 223 civilians killed and attributed the attacks to soldiers. The government rejected that finding and cited an open judicial inquiry.
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Regional judges found investigative failures; three defendants were committed for trial in 2026, but an appeal delayed proceedings.
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Thirty people were killed. AQIM claimed the attack and four gunmen were reported killed; wider accountability remains unresolved.
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More than 130 civilians were killed. Official sources reported different totals, and no final individual conviction was located.
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The government’s provisional count rose to 79; other sources reported at least 100. No final individual conviction was located.
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Casualty estimates range from 46 to 216. A state report says 13 defendants were indicted and sent for trial; no final judgment was verified.
Open case file →Each file separates a documented event from the legal status of identifiable defendants. One case has a trial judgment; the others remain pending, partly unresolved or without final individual accountability. Yirgou has reached the referral-for-trial stage, but no verdict was verified.
Source-specific totals are retained when investigations cover different villages or use different verification methods. The archive does not invent a reconciled number.
A claim, official attribution or human-rights investigation is not treated as a conviction against an individual. Government denials and open judicial inquiries are also recorded.
Memorial, village and court-record motifs avoid inventing victim likenesses, perpetrators or crime scenes.
Eight verified Burkina Faso case files are currently published.
The Thomas Sankara assassination trial produced convictions in 2022.
The Norbert Zongo murders remain pending; wider responsibility for the Ouagadougou attack, individual accountability for Yirgou, Solhan, Seytenga and Karma, and the Nondin-Soro judicial inquiry remain unresolved.
The Human Rights Watch finding, the government’s denial and the prosecutor’s investigation are identified separately.
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