A step in direction of reconciliation? Burkinabe’s Minister for Nationwide Reconciliation, Zéphirin Diabré, is in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. He’ll meet former President Blaise Compaoré, in exile since he overthrew in 2014.
This assembly is a premiere between a minister of Roch Marc Kaboré’s authorities and his predecessor Blaise Compaoré. And even when we have no idea the precise content material of the discussions that should happen, the case of Thomas Sankara’s dying needs to be at the guts of this assembly.
In actual fact, the investigation into the homicide of Thomas Sankara 34 years in the past has lastly been accomplished since 13 April. The inquiry referred the case to the Ouagadougou Army Court docket. We’re simply looking ahead to a date for the trial to open.
A whole of 14 folks together with Blaise Compaoré, charged with “complicity within the homicide” and “endangering state safety”. However Blaise Compaoré, who has been granted Ivorian nationality, can not be extradited from Côte d’Ivoire.
The lawyer for the Sankara household, Prosper Farama, is being reached by RFI and expects the Minister of Nationwide Reconciliation, Zéphirin Diabré, to persuade the previous president to go to Burkina Faso on his personal to look throughout the trial. Above all, he hopes that in the present day’s assembly won’t be the event “for a listening to within the title of reconciliation on the again of justice”. For him, all reconciliation requires a technique of reality and justice.
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