On Wednesday a Military tribunal sentenced Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a Military coup.
At the age of 37 the charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou four years after he took power from his predecessor.
Also sentenced to life imprisonment is two of Compaore’s former top associates, Hyacinthe Kafando and Gilbert Diendere.
The court found Compaore guilty of an attack on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of a corpse in it’s ruling.
