Former Bukina Faso President Blaise Compaore has been charged on Tuesday in connection with the murder of former President Thomas Sankara who was murder in 1987.
A military tribunal on Tuesday charged Compaore with complicity in the assassination, undermining state security and receiving cadavers, a court document seen by Reuters showed.Compaore's former right-hand man, General Gilbert Diendere, was also charged with several crimes related to Sankara's killing, including complicity in the assassination.
The death of Sankara, who became a Pan-African figure and nicknamed the "African Che", was a taboo subject during the 27 years in power of Blaise Compaoré, himself overthrown by a popular uprising in 2014