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The long-awaited verdict brings to close a six-month trial of Sankara who was assassinated on October 15, 1987.
An Ouagadougou court has sentenced former president Blaise Campaore to life imprisonment for the murder of the revered Thomas Sankara.
The long-awaited verdict brings to close a six-month trial of Sankara who was assassinated on October 15, 1987.
Military prosecutors had requested for a 30-year sentence for Campaore, who was being tried alongside thirteen others.
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 Compaore to power.