The Upper Volta revolution is for the popular masses. Therefore, we like all peoples of the world who believe in justice, freedom and democracy. The Upper Volta revolution associates all the people of Upper Volta with its work provided they toe the line. That is why here in Dori you also have to work together with soldiers. You have an army regiment in Dori; you must work together with that regiment. A revolutionary soldier is one who uses his weapons against the external and internal enemies of the people.

A soldier, a good soldier, is not the one that goes to bars to get drunk; he also does not beat civilians in the streets to assert his strength. A soldier should assert his strength elsewhere and not against the people. A good soldier, a people's soldier, is the one who exposes plots; plots by reactionaries, and those who want the return of past regimes, and he also fights these people.

There are such people in all army units, rotten elements who because yesterday they had power are not happy today about the fact that the people have a right to free speech and that justice is going to triumph. You must denounce them; you must fight them whatever their rank.

These are the soldiers who have not undergone proper training and who have only succeeded through wheeling and dealing. They are fat and chubby; they cannot carry a bag, they cannot run or walk, and they cannot even hold a gun properly but are intoxicating the other soldiers by telling them that the regime will not stand and that the regime will fall. It is because they are not happy any more, it is because they can no longer steal the cooking oil or the meat and sugar destined for soldiers.

It is because they are not able to wheel and deal any more that they are today discouraged and that they are trying to intoxicate the other soldiers. It is not a crime to shoot these kinds of people; it is not a crime to take your guns and shoot them - it would be doing service to the people to eliminate the enemies of the people.