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Blaise Compaor茅
Burkina Faso
Che Guevara
CIA
Cold War
Patrice Lumumba
Thomas Sankara
On April 6, 2022, Burkina Faso’s ex-President Blaise Compaor茅 was tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for murder. It took 35 years for justice to catch up with him for murdering his revolutionary socialist predecessor, Thomas Sankara (the “Che Guevara of Africa”), in a 1987 right-wing military coup. How long will justice take to catch up with the CIA and its French intelligence counterpart, the Direction g茅n茅rale de la s茅curit茅 ext茅rieure (DGSE), for what appears to have been their part in masterminding or enabling the plot that overthrew and killed Sankara? As young military officers in Burkina Faso during the 1970s and 1980s, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaor茅 were the best of friends. The two traveled the country playing in a musical band together and Sankara’s parents adopted Compaor茅 as his parents had died when he was young. In 1983, Sankara and Compaor茅 launched a coup against Burkina Faso’s military regime by Jean-Baptiste Ou茅draog...
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