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Military Tribunal in Burkina Faso Sentences Former President Compaore to Life Imprisonment

AdminBy AdminApril 6, 2022Updated:April 6, 2022No Comments2 Mins Read
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By Goodluck Ikiebe.

 

Former President Blaise Compaore.

 

A military tribunal in Burkina Faso has sentenced former President Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Capt. Thomas Sankara in a coup.

Our Correspondent recalls that the charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital, Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a previous putsch.

Compaore was charged in absentia on Wednesday along with his former Head of Security, Hyacinthe Kafando, who was also sentenced to life imprisonment.

Both have previously denied any involvement in Sankara’s death along with 12 other defendants accused of involvement in the plot, three of whom were declared innocent.

“The court finds Blaise Compaoré and Hyacinthe Kafando guilty of attack on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of a corpse,” the tribunal said in its ruling.

Compaore went on to rule for 27 years before being ousted in another coup in 2014 and fleeing to Ivory Coast, where he is still believed to live.

Fondly known as Africa’s “Che Guevara”, Sankara took power on a promise to thwart corruption and post-colonial influences, denouncing foreign aid as a control mechanism.

He rolled out mass vaccination against polio, banned female circumcision and polygamy, and was one of the first African leaders to publicly recognise the growing AIDS epidemic as a threat for the continent.

A former fighter pilot, Sankara won public support by selling a government fleet of Mercedes, lowering the pay of well-off public servants and forbidding first class state travel.

He cut his own salary, refused to work with air conditioning and jogged through Ouagadougou unaccompanied.

Over the weekend, students gathered around white flowers marking the spot where Sankara was shot.

Edited by Dada Ahmed.

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