Tag: Blaise Compaore

Burkina Faso Ex-President Found Guilty of Sankara’s Murder, Jailed For Life

Aoko Benjamin

“Mr. Compaore is guilty of the assassination and concealment of the corpse of Sankara, a reformer, who was his friend and predecessor, for him to take over and rule Burkina Faso for 27 years”   A military tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore be sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara in a coup. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after…

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BurkinaFaso’s ex-President Compaore charged in predecessor Sankara’s Assasination

Aoko Benjamin

  A Burkinafaso Court charged former President Blaise Compaore (pictured) in absentia on Tuesday in connection with the 1987 murder of then-President Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa’s post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary often called ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’, was assassinated during a coup led by his former friend Compaore. Compaore went on to rule Burkina Faso for 27 years before being ousted in a 2014 uprising and fleeing to Cote d’Ivoire, where he is believed still to live. He has previously denied any involvement…

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