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Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged a general who led a failed coup in September with complicity in the 1987 assassination of President Thomas Sankara, senior security sources have told the Reuters news agency."General Gilbert Diendere is formally charged in the Thomas Sankara case," a senior security source with direct knowledge of the case told Reuters, adding Diendere had been charged last month.
Mathieu Some, Diendere's lawyer, told Reuters on Sunday that his client had been charged over Sankara's death and he would prepare his legal defence. The charges are yet to be made public
Ten others, less senior than Diendere, have already been charged, Reuters reported. The senior security official said most were soldiers in the elite presidential guard of former President Blaise Compaore, who was ousted in October 2014.
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Finally some signs of justice in the murder of Thomas Sankara. After the uprising that we saw around a year ago, one of the demands that was brought forward was that the people demanded an immediate criminal investigation into the murder/assassination of Thomas Sankara.