ksuadminMay 8, 2021
It took more than three decades for the assassins of Thomas Sankara, one of the main African revolutionaries, to achieve justice in Burkina Faso.
It was not until April 13 that the case against the former dictator Blaise Campaoré, his chief of staff, General Gilbert Diendéré, and the soldiers involved in the case, was brought before the military court of Ouagadougou, the capital of the country.
Then president of Burkina Faso, Sankara was killed by six soldiers on October 15, 1987, along with 12 collaborators. The crime was the trigger for the coup led by Campaoré, until then his right hand and number two in the government.