MILAN, ITALY - OCTOBER 01: Blaise Compaore President of Burkina Faso attends the Forum of International Cooperation at Piccolo Teatro Strehler on October 1, 2012 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images)
A military tribunal on Wednesday sentenced Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara
Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a coup.
Compaore was charged in absentia along with his former head of security Hyacinthe Kafando, who was also sentenced to life imprisonment.
Both have previously denied complicity in Sankara’s murder. The former president went on to rule for 27 years before being ousted in another coup in 2014 after which, he fled to Ivory Coast.
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