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#PeoplesHistory | 🇧🇫 A Burkinabe court has given a long-awaited verdict and sentenced Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for the murder of his predecessor: Burkinabe Marxist, pan-Africanist and revolutionary Thomas Sankara. Image
#Sankara was the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. His government focused the foreign policies on anti-imperialism, rejecting foreign aid and policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and nationalizing all land and mineral wealth. Image
The Sankara government also introduced various progressive policies, including strengthening and liberation of women, massive education and self-reliance programs. Image
Sankara Became president at age 33. His government only lasted four years because he was killed in a coup led by his friend and comrade-in-arms Blaise Compaore and suspected to have had support from France and the US. Image
Blaise Compaore was tried alongside 13 others. The tribunal gave a life sentence to Gilbert Diendéré, another leader of the 1987 coup & Hyacinthe Kafando, commander of Compaore’s guards. The other defendants received sentences ranging from 3 to 20 years & 3 of them were acquitted Image
Read Thomas Sankara's speeches here: newframe.com/text-messages-…

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