Blaise Compaore, a former president of Burkina Faso, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 m#rder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, in a coup.
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He was sentenced in absentia by a military tribunal on Wednesday, April 6, alongside two of his former top associates, Hyacinthe Kafando and Gilbert Diendere, who also got life imprisonment.
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Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary, was sh#t de@d in the country’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a previous putsch.
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According to Reuters News, Compaore was found guilty of an att@ck on state security, complicity in m#rder and concealment of a co#pse, the tribunal said in its ruling.
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Compaore ruled the West Africa country for 27 years before being ousted in another coup in 2014 and fleeing to Ivory Coast, where he is still believed to live. ?: AFP
