Burkinabe ex-president Compaore gets life in prison for Sankara murder
It’s in Burkina Faso. Blaise Compaore, the former president of Burkina Faso, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for his role in the killing of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara, in a coup in 1987. A military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. When Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary, was 37, he was killed in the … Read more