Thomas Sankara

The long-awaited verdict on Wednesday brought to a close, a six-month trial about the murder of Mr Sankara.

Mr Compaoré, who was unseated in a 2014 uprising, fled to neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire where he was given citizenship. Good journalism costs a lot of money. The long-awaited verdict on Wednesday brought to close, a six-month trial about the murder of Mr Sankara, who was assassinated during a coup led by his friend and comrade-in-arms, Mr Compaoré, on October 15, 1987.

Reactions have began to follow a military court's ruling in Burkina Faso on Wednesday that handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over ...

It is at the same time a lesson and Africans should be inspired by it and make sure that no more such tragedies occur in our countries." For the people, because it's been 34 years of struggle of a people. They would then be killed one by one." Their trial and sentencing were done in absentia. We must not forget, it's been 34 years that the Burkinabe people have been fighting against impunity. In any case, I am relieved because we know who he is.

Burkina Faso's exiled former president, Blaise Compaore, was convicted of the murder of Thomas Sankara, the iconic African leader killed in a coup more than ...

Blaise Compaore, the then Burkina Faso president, speaks to journalists in Paris on September 18, 2012. He has been handed a life sentence over the 1987 ...

They would then be killed one by one." But the defendants said the victims died in a botched attempt to arrest Sankara after he and Compaore fell out over the direction the country's revolution was taking. The sentencing of Compaore by a military court on Wednesday crowns a six-month trial of 14 men accused of killing Sankara on October 15, 1987, a prosecution marked by grim testimony and disrupted by a military coup.

The long journey toward a verdict in the murder trial of Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaoré has ended, with Compaoré sentenced in absentia to ...

The now-complete trial began in October 2021. It was the last African revolution, interrupted in blood in 1987, just as it was beginning to bear promising fruits,” said the International Campaign Justice for Sankara (ICJS). Sankara was 37 when he was gunned down on October 15, 1987, along with 12 other men who died.

The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation's capital Ouagadougou in 1987.

All three have previously denied involvement in Sankara‘s death along with eleven other defendants accused of involvement in the plot. “I think Burkinabe know now who Thomas Sankara was… Critics say his reforms curtailed freedoms and did little to enrich ordinary people.

Analysis - More than 34 years after Thomas Sankara's assassination, a trial to establish the facts has taken place. For some, justice that has been delayed ...

It is a continuous fight that never stops, not for the lawyers, but for all the Burkinabe people." He still came to make his contribution by explaining himself to the people," Some told DW. "The fight for justice and truth never stops at a trial. "He stands for selflessness, somebody of course who came to power through the gun but decided to slash his own salary and then urged citizens to follow suit. For those who have not been convicted, let them know that by taking the lives of others, they will not be able to enjoy their freedom." "We want this to serve as a lesson for everyone," Sankara said. He was down to earth, he cared about the people. That love even goes beyond the shores of Burkina Faso. "The families wanted the truth, justice," Farama said. Traore said Sankara left the meeting room with his hands in the air. Those men would go on to become the hit squad for the murder. The former chief warrant officer in Compaore's presidential guard, Hyacinthe Kafando, who is on the run, was also given a life sentence but the two men were tried in absentia.

Lawyers representing the family of former Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara, assassinated in 1987, demand former president Blaise Compaoré be extradited to ...

We insist on this, so that this decision is carried out, if they must afterwards have the right to a pardon, to an amnesty, that it is done as per the rules, that's all...." "If it is not a travesty of justice we want, then the state must do everything possible, while respecting the rights of convicted. Another lawyer, Bénéwende Stanislas Sankara, added "we have the possibility of bringing justice to bear on this side again, so for us it will be a matter of the collective of lawyers, in concert with the families, if we have to take this on, we will see it through to the end".