mon 21 feb 2015, 19:50

Former president suspected of murder of president

OUAGADOUGOU –

Justice in Burkina Faso, almost three decades after the assassination of president Thomas Sankara finally hunting the perpetrators. Against the main defendant is now an international arrest warrant issued: former president Blaise Compaoré.

Blaise Compaoré on a visit to the French president Chirac in 2006
Photo: AFP

The murder of Sankara was one of the most notorious political murders of the past decades in Africa have been committed. After the murder in 1987, Compaoré over power in the West African country. He made the service until he himself last year, was toppled by a popular uprising. Compaoré fled to the Ivory coast, where he probably still is.

Incidentally, it was also the murdered president Sankara in 1983 come to power by a coup. His body was earlier this year unearthed. From the autopsy showed that it was riddled with bullets.