Burkina Faso is finally preparing to prosecute the perpetrators of the assassination of the father of the revolution of August 4, 1983.
34 years after the events, an ad hoc military tribunal has decided to prosecute the former president of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaoré for attacking state security, complicity in assassination and concealment of corpses in the file of the assassination of Thomas Sankara.
So decided the military court in charge of the judgment of this case. With Blaise Compaoré, other accomplices like his ex-chief of staff, Gilbert Diendéré and Hyacinthe Kafando. The latter was the head of the commando which assassinated former President Thomas Sankara and his close guard on October 15, 1987. As for Gilbert Diendéré, he is already imprisoned within the framework of the failed coup against the institutions of the Transition in 2015.
An international warrant will be launched against Blaise Compaoré, a refugee in Côte d’Ivoire since his overthrow by a popular demonstration in October 2014. He never left this country again, where he resides under the protection of Alassane Ouattara who moreover granted Ivorian nationality. Blaise Compaoré was the godfather of the Ivorian rebellion.
Former companion of Thomas Sankara, Blaise Compaoré has long been considered the mastermind of the assassination of the father of the Burkinabe revolution.
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