By AFP More by this AuthorFormer Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore has been jailed for life for his role in the assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 35 years ago. Hit SquadAfter Sankara entered the meeting room, the hit squad burst in, killing his guards, the prosecution said. "The squad then ordered president Sankara and his colleagues to leave the room. Ballistics experts told the trial Sankara had been shot in the chest at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds. Compaore, who was deposed by a popular uprising in 2014, boycotted what his lawyers dismiss as a "political trial."

Source: Daily Nation April 07, 2022 08:57 UTC