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    UN human rights chief sounds alarm over rising violence in Burkina Faso

    Allegations of responsibility point to both armed groups and State actors.

    “While armed groups are presumed responsible for the vast majority of incidents and victims and should be held accountable, I am also deeply disturbed that security and defence forces and their auxiliaries, the Volontaires pour la défense de la patrie, allegedly carried out wanton killings, including summary executions,” Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in