Ex-Burkinabé President Blaise Compaoré, who overthrew and assassinated Thomas Sankara in a coup, sentenced to life in prison over his involvement in said coup
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Burkina Faso's ex-president Compaore handed life sentence in absentia over Sankara murder
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/burkina-fasos-former-president-compaore-sentenced-life-prison-over-sankara-2022-04-06/
Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday.