{"id":173165,"date":"2022-04-06T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=173165"},"modified":"2022-04-06T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:43:11","slug":"former-burkina-faso-president-gets-life-sentence-for-assassination-of-sankara-in-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/06\/former-burkina-faso-president-gets-life-sentence-for-assassination-of-sankara-in-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Burkina Faso president gets life sentence for assassination of Sankara in 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, has been sentenced to life imprisonment over the 1987 assassination of foremost revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.<\/p>\n

Compaore, who lived in exile in Ivory Coast after being toppled by public protests in 2014, and Kafando, who had been on the run since 2016, were tried in absentia by the military court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The court also issued life terms to Hyacinthe Kafando, an officer suspected of having led the hit squad, and General Gilbert Diendere, an army commander at the time of the assassination<\/a>, which coincided with a coup that brought Compaore to power.<\/p>\n

The six-month trial was avidly followed by many in the landlocked Sahel nation, for whom Sankara\u2019s bloody death remains a dark blot on the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Sankara was shot dead on October 15 1987, little more than four years after coming to power as an army captain aged just 33.<\/p>\n

According to AFP, Sankara , the fiery Marxist-Leninist who blasted the West for neo-colonialism and hypocrisy and 12 colleagues were killed by a hit squad at a meeting of the ruling National Revolutionary Council.<\/p>\n

Discussing the leftwing icon\u2019s death was taboo throughout the 27-year reign of Compaore, Sankara\u2019s comrade-in-arms.<\/p>\n

The court in the capital Ouagadougou found Compaore, Kafando and Diendere all guilty of harming state security.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Grim details \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compaore and Diendere were also found guilty of complicity in murder, and Kafando of murder.<\/p>\n

Their sentences exceeded the request of military prosecutors.<\/p>\n

They had sought 30 years for Compaore and Kafando, and 20 years for Diendere, who is already serving a 20-year term over an attempted military coup in 2015.<\/p>\n

Eight other accused were given jail terms ranging from three to 20 years, while three defendants were acquitted.<\/p>\n

In its closing statement, the prosecution recounted in grim detail, a plot to ambush Sankara and his closest followers.<\/p>\n

Sankara headed to the National Revolutionary Council meeting for a rendezvous with death, for \u201chis executioners were already there,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

After Sankara entered the meeting room, the hit squad burst in, killing his guards, the prosecution said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe squad then ordered president Sankara and his colleagues to leave the room. They would then be killed one by one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ballistics experts told the trial Sankara had been shot in the chest at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s revolution was taking.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Unstable country \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Compaore boycotted what his lawyers dismissed as a \u201cpolitical trial\u201d, while an attorney for Diendere said his client\u2019s life term was \u201cexcessive\u201d given that he had attended the trial and contributed to proceedings, while the two other chiefs accused were absent.<\/p>\n

Sankara\u2019s widow, Mariam Sankara, who attended the trial throughout, hailed the outcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe judge has handed down his verdict in line with the law, and everyone appreciates this,\u201d she affirmed, adding \u201dit is something that we had requested \u2013 justice and truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal was for the political violence we have in Burkina Faso to come to end. This verdict will give many people a cause for thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guy Herve Kam, the Sankara family\u2019s lawyer, said the culmination of a decades-long legal fight made him \u201cproud\u201d to be both a Burkinabe and a lawyer.<\/p>\n

Also, Prosper Farama, another Sankara lawyer, said, \u201cOur hope is that this odious crime never happens again in either Burkina Faso or elsewhere in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

As one of the world\u2019s poorest countries, Burkina has had a long history of political turmoil since it gained independence from France in 1960.<\/p>\n

Reminders of that instability came during the trial, when proceedings were briefly suspended after a coup on January 24 that deposed the elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore.<\/p>\n

Kabore was toppled by rebel officers angered over his failure to roll back a nearly seven-year-old jihadist insurgency.<\/p>\n

The campaign has claimed some 2,000 lives and displaced some 1.8 million people.<\/p>\n

The trial resumed after new military strongman Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba restored the constitution and swore an oath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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