Burkina Faso: first reconstruction of the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara at the UN gallery. © UN

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In Burkina Faso, the legal proceedings in connection with the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara continue. Yesterday Thursday, the Ouagadougou military court reconstituted the assassination of the father of the revolution and his companions. The survivors, witnesses and accused, participated in this reconstruction. Objective, to retrace the course of each protagonist, to see the likelihood or not of the different versions of certain facts.

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For several hours, everything was reconstituted. The commando, the attack of October 15, 1987, the arrival of certain people on the scene as described by the various protagonists. We reconstituted according to the version of the protagonists, explains Master Prosper Farama, one of the lawyers for the Sankara family. Survivors played their part and those who died were replaced by others to play their role. "This allows you to contextualize in a precise and concrete way what could have happened, continues the lawyer," and to see the verisimilitude or not of the versions which have been presented. "

Also read our webdoc: Who killed Sankara?

Among the accused present, General Gilbert Dienderé retraced what was his journey, when arms began to crackle in the afternoon of October 15, 1987. From the sports field to the site of the killing, passing by his office of the time according to the reconstruction.

" He had time to explain what he was doing that day, it was a good opportunity, we think it was worth it, " explains Maître Olivier Yelkouni, one of his lawyers.

All the accused and witnesses in the case present in the capital participated in this first reconstruction of the assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara during the coup in October 1987.

Read also : France transmits a first batch of archives to Burkina Faso on the death of Thomas Sankara

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