More than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, were massacred by Burkina Faso's military in a single day this year, Human Rights Watch says.

In the attacks on 25 February, the army killed 179 people in Soro village and 44 others in the nearby Nondin village, an HRW investigation found.
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The soldiers went door-to-door, ejecting residents from their homes.

"They then rounded up villagers in groups before opening fire on them," the report added, citing witness and survivor accounts.
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The mass killings are believed to be retaliation by the military, which accused the villagers of aiding armed Islamist fighters.

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