Gur

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Kaan (Gan): The live in Burkina Faso, about 9,900 persons, language Kaansa. There have been several conflicts recently between elders of the royal family and Christian members of the same family. In Kaan (Gan) tradition, the royal family has rights of burial and the rights to arrange marriages for its members. Marriages are often arranged without regard to the choice or will of the young woman involved, and some royal women who have become Christians have refused what amounts to a forced marriage to a non-Christian. In addition, some royal Christians have died expressing a desire not to be buried with traditional pagan rites but to be buried by leaders of the local church. In recent cases leaders of the royal family, accompanied by young men with clubs and machetes, have forcibly taken the bodies at the funerals to bury them in their own cemetery with their own rites. A group of Kaan pastors filed an official charge against the Kaan King of inciting violence and depriving them of their rights to freedom of religion guaranteed to them in Burkina Faso's constitution and civil law.