{"id":435449,"date":"2011-06-03T13:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/presidential-guard-fire-on-mutineers\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T13:47:40","slug":"presidential-guard-fire-on-mutineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/presidential-guard-fire-on-mutineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Guard Fire On Mutineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"21.7609955677\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaor\u00e9&#8217;s presidential guard on Friday went on the offensive against mutinous troops in the economic capital in the south-west, Bobo Dioulasso, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The military action was the first time that force has been used against the mutineers since unrest broke out in the armed forces in March.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers of the Regiment of Presidential Security (RSP) &#8220;have practically encircled the [military] base. They&#8217;re on all the roads that lead up to the base and have gone in there to search out the soldiers inside,&#8221; one resident told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>One witness said that &#8220;heavy weapons fire&#8221; could be heard from the direction of the governor&#8217;s offices and the hospital, not far from the Ouezzin Coulibaly camp where the mutineers are based.<\/p>\n<p>The night was marked by a lot of shooting into the air and renewed looting on a big scale, residents said. The mutineers have been causing havoc and pillaging shops in Bobo Dioulasso since Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>France on Friday called for dialogue between all the parties involved so that reforms can be carried out and order restored.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110603-burkina-presidential-guard-fire-mutineers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/em>  <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106031133.html\" title=\"Presidential Guard Fire On Mutineers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Presidential Guard Fire On Mutineers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 3 June 2011 Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaor\u00e9&#8217;s presidential guard on Friday went on the offensive against mutinous troops in the economic capital in the south-west, Bobo Dioulasso, witnesses said. The military action was the first time that force has been used against the mutineers since unrest broke out in the armed forces in March. Soldiers of the Regiment of Presidential Security (RSP) &#8220;have practically encircled the [military] base. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidential Guard Fire On Mutineers - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/presidential-guard-fire-on-mutineers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Presidential Guard Fire On Mutineers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"3 June 2011 Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaor\u00e9&#039;s presidential guard on Friday went on the offensive against mutinous troops in the economic capital in the south-west, Bobo Dioulasso, witnesses said. 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