{"id":16799,"date":"2022-05-11T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.kivuavenir.com\/?p=16799"},"modified":"2022-05-11T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:43:51","slug":"burkina-orders-compaore-to-pay-damages-over-sankara-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kivuavenir.com\/en\/burkina-orders-compaore-to-pay-damages-over-sankara-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina orders Compaore to pay damages over Sankara killings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The order comes after a trial last month that sentenced the group to long jail terms, ending a case that afflicted the Sahel state for 34 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A former comrade-in-arms of Sankara, Compaore took power during a putsch on the day of the assassination, ruling until 2014, when he was toppled by mass protests and fled abroad.<\/p>\n

Judge Urbain Meda, presiding over a military court in the capital Ouagadougou, ordered payment of 807.5 million CFA francs $1.3 million\u00a0 to relatives of the 12 people who were gunned down alongside Sankara.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sankara family was awarded a symbolic one franc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The award is indicative of “the moral and economic harm” the families suffered, Meda said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Those liable are Compaore; Hyacinthe Kafando, his former presidential guard commander; Gilbert Diendere, the ex-army chief in 1987; and seven other defendants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On April 6, Compaore, Kafando and Diendere were handed life terms for orchestrating the assassination, while the others were jailed for three to 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Compaore, who lives in neighbouring Ivory Coast, was sentenced in absentia while Kafando has been on the run since 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Under the court decision, the Burkina state must compensate the heirs of the victims if the convicted are unable to pay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the court rejected a request to return Sankara’s property to his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Benewende Stanislas Sankara, a lawyer for the Sankaras, expressed regret for the property ruling and said the family was considering whether to appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A fiery Marxist-Leninist who blasted the West for neo-colonialism and hypocrisy, Sankara was shot dead on October 15 1987, little more than four years after coming to power as an army captain aged just 33.<\/p>\n

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He and 12 colleagues were killed by a hit squad at a meeting of the ruling National Revolutionary Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Discussing the leftwing icon’s death was taboo throughout Compaore’s 27-year reign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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