Burkina Faso tries alleged killers of revolutionary icon Sankara

Fourteen men, including former president Compaore, 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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