A military court in Burkina Faso on Wednesday handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. The court in the capital Ouagadougou found Compaore, Kafando and Diendere all guilty of harming state security. Sankara headed to the National Revolutionary Council meeting for a rendezvous with death, for “his executioners were already there,” it said. After Sankara entered the meeting room, the hit squad burst in, killing his guards, the prosecution said. They would then be killed one by one.”Ballistics experts told the trial Sankara had been shot in the chest at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds.

Source: The Guardian April 06, 2022 14:37 UTC