The former Burkinabe president, in exile in Côte d’Ivoire, will be tried for “complicity” in the assassination of Thomas Sankara. The trial date has not yet been set, but the case has been referred to the Ouagadougou Military Court and the charges have been confirmed. 34 years after the assassination of Thomas Sankara on October 15, 1987, and 12 of his accomplices during the coup that brought Blaise Compaoré to power, the former president and 13 of his accomplices are being referred to court, including 4 of his bodyguards at the time directly accused of murder.
In fact, rememberThe country in Ouagadougou, “the Thomas Sankara case would never have registered such progress at the legal level if Blaise Compaoré’s regime, after becoming unpopular over the years, had failed to reach unanimity against him in its desire to revise Article 37 of the Constitution. Rest, we know that Because Blaise Compaoré, on the corner of an angry street, stopped firing on October 31, 2014 to take refuge in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and that, under the laziness and mockery of an entire nation. Since then, tongues had begun to loosen; So, Le Pays, for a stage victory, it’s one for the Sankara family and their lawyers who are now just waiting for the trial to begin to find out exactly what happened on 15 October 1987. “Who killed Sankara? Who ordered his death? And for what purposes?”
In the light of national reconciliation …
“The political and judicial calendars collide”, notes L’Observateur Paalga. “This accusation really comes at a time when national reconciliation is in the air. The re-elected president, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, made it one of the priorities of his last five-year term. He even appointed an ad hoc minister in Zéphirin Diabré’s person who has since stepped up consultations in all directions. And more than ever, the return of those exiles, especially the first of them, Blaise Compaoré, is at the center of controversy. ”
Compaoré must explain himself personally
For every dayToday“Blaise Compaoré must be responsible, personally …” He will have to explain to Burkinabè, no longer through the foreign media, but directly to the people, materialized by his justice, why a fusion friendship was so tragically revealed one afternoon. Why and who decided who ordered the end of the Burkinabè revolution (…) Who ordered the death on October 15 (…) It is after lifting the veil on all these gray areas and after following what justice will have concluded about his guilt or his innocence, that the chapter on forgiveness, the real part of the Atonement, may be opened. “
Of course, all of this is still relevant today, “provided Blaise plans to come to Burkina.” Does he trust justice in his country? Is he not afraid that there is justice for the winners? (…) The only certainty is that Burkinabè wants to browse in all these dark years (…). ”
Have all the mysteries been cleared?
Still, “the tool has certainly not been fully assembled,” the information page states WakatSera, because even though some documents have been downgraded, entire sections of this file may remain a mystery for government reasons. Another detail, and not least, is the issue of the presence of Blaise Compaoré, also points out the website Burkinabé (…). Will Côte d’Ivoire release one of its citizens? The presence of the former facilitator of the Ivorian political crisis in 2010, at the helm of the Ouagadougou Military Court, is far from certain. ”
In any case, WakatSéra concludes, “if the Thomas Sankara affair succeeds, the family of the famous deceased and those of his 12 companions will no doubt finally know the truth about the authors and perhaps them. Sponsors of the dirty work. Question: what impact does this verdict have on the reconciliation process, where this issue, whether we like it or not, has an important place? In any case, if the captain died on October 15, 1987, Thomas Sankara refuses to die in the minds of the revolutionaries, where he remains immortal, even if he was not a saint. “
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