“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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