At least 11 demonstrators were killed in the capital last weekend. They have called for mass civil disobedience until President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta steps down.

Extremists and vigilantes are killing civilians in the West African nation of Burkina Faso, but so are soldiers, sowing fear and suspicion in a country that had once prided itself on its strong social fabric. We traveled to the country’s volatile far north to investigate the abuses.