Burkina Faso puts 14 on trial for 1987 assassination of iconic leader Thomas Sankara

Fourteen men, including a former president, will go on trial in Burkina Faso from Monday over the assassination in 1987 of Thomas Sankara, the country's revolutionary leader and a pan-Africanist icon.

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