Blaise Compaoré, ex-President of Burkina Faso Sentenced To Life For Murder of Thomas Sankara
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist revolutionary, and pan-Africanist President of west African nation Burkina Faso. Sankara was assassinated in 1987. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced to life in prison