Burkina: at the Thomas Sankara memorial, the homage of Jean-Luc Mélenchon to the assassinated president
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French deputy Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his delegation, accompanied by members of the Thomas Sankara Memorial Committee and a representative of Thomas Sankara's family.
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Visiting Burkina Faso, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the deputy of France Insoumise, visited the site of the Thomas Sankara memorial this Sunday afternoon, July 18.
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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou,
Yaya Boudani
Jean-Luc Mélenchon laid a wreath of flower at the foot of the giant statue of Captain Thomas Sankara, he bowed in front of the building where he was assassinated on October 15, 1987 and planted a tree on the site of the memorial.
In front of the journalists, the deputy of rebellious France held a very “Sankarist” speech.
The fight against colonialism, imperialism, desertification or food self-sufficiency, all the themes dear to the father of the Burkinabè revolution were discussed.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon specified that he did not come as a lesson-giver to Burkina Faso, but to be inspired by the Sankarist discourse and to share experiences with those who still aspire to the ideals of the former Burkinabè president.
On the memorial site, Jean-Luc Mélenchon also recalled his attachment to the values advocated by the father of the Burkinabè revolution: the refusal of resignation. For the French deputy, it is time to rewrite a new page of relations between his country and its former colonies. “
We came to learn because we know the extraordinary personality of
Thomas Sankara
and his main political indications,
” he said.
I can at the same time tell you that I represent this France which does not identify with imperialism, which does not want colonialism, which deplores paternalism and which hates the injustice of an unpunished crime
”.
A visit welcomed by Luc Damiba, the secretary general of the Thomas Sankara Memorial Committee. He took the opportunity to ask deputies from rebellious France to plead for the repatriation of the rest of the French archives on the Thomas Sankara affair. “
France's archives on the Thomas Sankara dossier are not exhausted. We pleaded with him so that he continues to ask that France continue to deliver archives that are still kept there because that can still protect people who are still alive. However, we want to have the whole truth and France can help us to obtain it
”.
On Wednesday Jean-Luc Melenchon will face students from Joseph Ki-Zerbo University, to decline what would be the main lines of his foreign policy if he is elected in the next presidential elections.
►Also read: Burkina Faso: Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the footsteps of Sankara and Macron
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