Captain Ibrahim Traore's Powerful speech at the Palais des Sports 2024

Captain Ibrahim Traore's Remarkable speech at the Palais des Sports 2024

We understood what it was about. The attacks followed immediately, but what they had forgotten was that the people of Burkina Faso had understood our message and were committed to the same voice. That we reorganized ourselves quickly, and suddenly we noticed that all the terrorist sleeper cells woke up in Burkina Faso. We reorganized the army as quickly as possible, at an unequal speed. We created several units, and even if several others are to come, we have equipped them. And today, this equipment continues because in the days to come, the months to come, what you will see coming to Burkina Faso must make our army a power. We are not going to skimp on the means. We have understood that the fight that is underway against imperialism will be hard, very hard. But only the hard ones will pass, and the Burkinabés are will be victorious.

You noticed in Niger and Mali, while we were struggling during the year 2023. In Niger, we have a big problem because terrorists came, attacked, and left, and we have no possibility of pursuing them. I am telling you here today, at a given moment, we sent a mission to President Bazoum so that we could at least launch the fight when we are attacked on our territory. In return, he received the message badly. We took note, and we, therefore, stayed in observing this part by reorganizing ourselves. It is to tell you that imperialism has plenty of time. When it wants to destabilize, it looks immediately. If it is not possible, it lays the groundwork to do so in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. But it has no interest in us being independent.