A Ouagadougou court has sentenced former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaoré to life imprisonment for the murder of his predecessor, the revered Thomas Sankara.
The long-awaited verdict brings to close a six-month trial about the murder of Sankara who was assassinated on October 15, 1987.
Military prosecutors had requested a 30-year sentence for Compaoré, who was being tried alongside 13 others. Compaoré now lives in Ivory Coast and refused to take part in the trial.
Sankara, a revered pan-Africanist leader, was murdered alongside 12 others by a hit squad during a putsch that brought his friend and comrade-in-arms Compaoré to power.
Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports.
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Sanakar can never be killed, he lives in the hearts of every revolutionary
You Already Killed Africa… Just forget your dirty drama now. Hope you can’t expect existing from Africa coz U r doing now too,
Thomas Sankara is still alive, he will live in the hearts and minds of every African eternally.
True .
until the revolution ends he will continue to guide
Finally some ⚖ in this world
France killed him
The French Government officials who covertly sponsored the coup will never be brought to book
Gone but not forgotten, Today we lack people like Sanakar
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Wow wonderful reporting.
Opening up my eyes to what’s happening half a continent away from me
For Information those murdered African visionaries are not dead , they flesh might be gone but their spirits are alive on the land of their ancestors. I need not to mention any names but I believe everyone with a pure African soul knows them ✊🏿❤️
Sankara killer deserve no mercy
France is always involved in shady activities in broad daylight.
Sankara teachings will live on forever.. naming my kid ‘Isidore’ has had me mentioning His name everyday..
Its most probably France was behind the murder of this icon
Great move toward justice. Sad to hear Sankara being miniaturized by being called the “che Guevara of Africa” though
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Precisely
@Thabo Miya obviously the expression wasn’t for you, but to help people who don’t know anything about him to understand who he was in Africa. Don’t be so sensitive to language, it is always open to interpretation
@Thabo Miya Che Guevara was the Sankara of South America… not the other way around.
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16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. 17 Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. 19 For I have chosen him , so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”
20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21 that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”
22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. 23 Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing —to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
26 The Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?”
“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”
29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?”
He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”
30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”
31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?”
He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”
32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?”
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
33 When the Lord had finished speaking(AC) with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
African Cheguevera
France moving out – mm. Radiation levels sky high who live in our fellow humans’ mud and dry branch shelter. Geiger counters off the scale.
It seems like the great leaders in Africa get killed off and the corrupt ones who benefit from colonial interests live forever.
Thomas Sankara was killed by the CIA America backed the French government killing Sankara. The
West is an ENEMY to AFRICA. Take your resources and wealth, use it to build your people and country up. 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽 NO MORE FOREIGN AID
Le capitaine Thomas Sancara fait partie de ces officiers militaires qui avait tout donné au peuple en négligeant un point important de se mefier de spn propre entourage car il y a toukours des traitres qui ne font que d’essayer de saboter et de re-saboter. Disait Voltaire « occupez-vous de mes amis je m’en charge de mes ennemis » un procès qui aurait être fait il y a belle lurette à quoi sert aujourd’hui ?!mais enfin il vaut mieux tard que jamais je signale que toutes les injustices commises encore aujourd’hui à l’instar du makhzen au Maroc devrait méditer sur cette justice tardive qui n’epargnerait aucun berguag qui font souffrir les dissident politiques militaires et civils le capitaine Thomas Sancara ce capitaine qui avait osé faire bouger les grandes lignes que l’histoire lui est reconnaissante au même titre le général Oufkir le général Hammou…au Maroc le colonel Boumediennne en Algérie…le colonel Nasser en Égypte
You can kill a revolution but you cannot kill a revolutionary rip Thomas sankara
I was thinking of this quote the entire time I was watching the video ✊
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Man should have a public hanging, let the nation see !
Thomas Sankara: The African Malcolm X.
Hope even m7 will also pay for what he has done to Ugandans and his son
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It took 34years to finally deal with Blaise????? This us ridiculous. The Bakinabe people have really failed Sankara. The best that you can do is to go get him by force wherever he is.
At last justice was served, let him serve life jail term,
Sankara the upright man❤️ forever in our hearts.
Justice for muammar Gaddafi family too.
It’s coming, only the time isn’t said so
This guy inspired our ug next president bobi wine
A life sentence an unknown driftice lingerative action used again based off of a uniformed and sury an as needed obviously a private publicized job b, however, a designated body not known?… Depopulate
About time other African countries revisited assassinations/political executions from the past!
Thought the guy was caught now how comes you sentence an absent person just asking
I will arrest him, mark my words.
Ok
Campoare??? What About Those Who Help Him To Get The Power And Keep Him 27 Yrs There. Western Governments? They Think we Are Fools. They Use You. When You Are Done They Will Expose You. Western Hypocrisy. But We Africans Will Never Understand
Blame France 🇫🇷
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wow
Sankara was murdered for standing up to French neocolonialism.
Well, we know the murderers but we also know they where send by France intelligence. Those must also reeive tbe same fate only then total justice is served.
Perfectly right
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Nobody cares.
Why did you remove Al Jazeera live chat?
I’m not sure what’s worse, the very late attempt at justice for a good man, or to find that France did nothing to aid justice for so long
Or could it be France had something to do with it🤔
never harm another human.
Finally, justice has rained.
2:43 😂🤣🥴
Sankara was a hero and savior of African peoples. Burkina Faso was a model country under his leadership. And the traitors and imperialist agents destroyed the African uprising. It’s a shame! The perpetrators need to be punished and many new Sankaras are needed.
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Ivorian President is not a true African leader but a puppet of France otherwise the murderer can’t be given safe Africa is suffering today because of the removal of our independence heroes.
It’s the French who killed him , don’t be lied they may not be the one who fired the bullets but they were holding the gun
*Peace & Stability in Burkina Faso very important for Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana. because Burkina Faso have border with 6 countries.*
Iwish they can do the some to Magufuri. Finally he can rest in peace 💔💔💔💔
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Sankara is Burkina Faso – Otherwise it would still be Upper Volta. If you know you know.
Revered throughout the world not just ‘French speaking ‘ Africa.
And obama guilty for killing President muamar gadhafi
Burkina Faso needs to demand ivory coast hand him over or else.
WHO HOLDS INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRACTICE OF A CRIMINAL ACT AND DOES NOT REPORT IT IS CRIMINAL, IN THE SAME PROPORTION AS THE MORAL/MATERIAL AUTHOR.
FRANCE, IN POSSESSION OF ALL THAT INFORMATION, WHAT ADVANTAGES HAS FRANCE OBTAINED BY NOT REVEALING THESE TRUTH????
For better Africa Generations Lets follow foot steps of Sankara + Magufuli + Mwalimu Nyerere + Gadaffi + Nkurumah, + Mandela + Lumumba + Mugabe + Malema + Kagame + Current Ghana president +++++
He’s a Juda
Cheers from west Africa
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The Guy who killed should be excecuted
Finally everything’s comes out.
We are not dumb,Africans know who gave the order:Mitterand worked closely with Houphouet Boigny and Hassan 2 to terminate “this dangerous young man” and replace him with his best friend who fell for an old trick the colonizers have used many times before and since,they made a mistake because today there are millions of Sankaras in Africa and in the Diaspora,as the man himself once said:”you can kill a revolutionary but you cannot kill his ideas”
RIPOWER comrade SANKARA
The french where involved and must be brought Infront of the law also
He Was killed by corrupt France ideology and France is Missionary of Antichrist they lie to slave rape torture genocide against mankind for survive they corrupt the earth shared blood they full evil with human image
They sould put them in death penalty for killing Thomas Sankara they arw betrayals to African and colonized worshiper slave trade descend
I watched a short documentary yesterday, called the ‘Economic Hitman.” I would advise everyone in government who is not from the West to read that book.
Citizens pray for your leaders, the Bible tells us to do so. Cover them under The Blood of The LORD JESUS CHRIST. Pray that no weapons formed against them shall prosper and every tongue that rise up against them you condemn. Pray that THE LORD GOD will make them good leaders, to rule the country with the fear of CHRIST JESUS and that the leader have the fear of ALMIGHTY GOD. Ask the LIRD to protect them and request the mighty angels of ALMIGHTY GOD to guard them.
Pray for them every night and day. Leaders, who are trying to lead their country in the right way are almost always assassinated by the wicked.
These are leaders who have armed guards, so you see man can only do so much. But if you request the angels of THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD to be his protection Officers no plan of the wicked can come near him. They will try; but their evil plan will return upon the planners heads. The wickedness of the wicked will not win; they shall fail every time.
Read your Bibles and start praying.
He keeps saying popular in French speaking African countries. He is very very popular in my country Nigeria and we are English speaking
The Ivory coast has been an antiAfrican.Ivory coast has been destroying Africa since in the 1970s. It contributed to the war in Nigeria and harbored a terrorist so called Biafran bandit Ojukwou. It is a network of French interest in Africa . They destroyed Liberia.
FRANCE is responsible for his murder.
France is worst than a VAMPIRE
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HE WE DIFFERENTLY DIE IN THAT PLACE FOR KILLING YOUR FAVOURITE FRIEND YOU ARE A GREAT HUGE DISGRACE
INNOCENT SANKARE
He was killed by white people
France was behind sankara assassination.
Wondering what was the French’s role in that assassination everyone knows what dirty games France play and exploit all of it’s ex-colonies
The only country in Africa that accepts and promotes colonialism is Ivory cost. The character of that country has never changed.
🇧🇫 burkina should start extradition that life sentence should be served
The son of Africa
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You can’t silence truth, you can only delay justice. God never sleeps!
It’s only sad if you buy the fake bill of sale .
President Thomas Sankara was not even a communist .I was a high school teenager when he was president .
So I totally fail to see the comparison between him and Che Guevara .
The media can be very deliberately misleading if you do not closely know a particular historical event.
The media is full of hot air , distortions and lazy inaccurate journalism.
Communism is a European concept totally alien to AfricAns 🤎 👁️🙅🏿 .
Eurocentrics wrongly believe Africans are copying or should be mimicking some of their funny stuff .
Africans 🙅🏿 do find communism alien or unsuitable because Africans have always owned their land .
Every family in Africa owns land. It’s not like Europe were an extremely tiny fraction of the population , the upper class or aristocracy, monopolized 95 % of the land .
This then gave rise to communist thoughts & communist movements which sought to redistribute the land from the aristocracy to the politariat .
African society is not European society , does not have the same problems or societal structures that brought about communism , as in Europe .
Sankara was ASSISSINATED🛑 and NOT MURDERED . UTTERLY SHOCKING A MEDIA outlet Of your calibre does not understand or know the difference between a politically motivated assassination and an ordinary murder .