Thomas Sankara assassination: researchers insist that the trial be recorded
Researchers petition for video or audio recording of President Thomas Sankara's assassination trial.
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In Burkina Faso, researchers are launching a petition for the video or audio recording of the trial of the alleged assassins of President Thomas Sankara.
After the decision of the president of the first chamber of the military court of Ouagadougou to refuse the recording of the trial, these researchers hope to collect at least 10,000 signatures to push the court to reconsider its position.
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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou,
Yaya Boudani
For the Burkinabè researcher Rassablega Seydou Ouédraogo of the Free Afrik institute, we must think about the historical stakes of this Thomas Sankara affair.
He hopes that the signatures obtained will push the court to reconsider its position on the archiving of the trial: “
I know what it means to be in difficulty to find information, documents, archives on what interests us.
Second, you cannot build a nation without knowing where it came from.
We think it is really essential to archive this trial for the sake of history.
It is not a fight to explain that the law is on their side, it is not a legal question.
It is a question of what is at stake for tomorrow, for our children ”.
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It must be used for collective memory
"
The academic Aziz Salmone Fall, coordinator of the international campaign “
Justice for Thomas Sankara
”, wants the president of the first chamber of the tribunal to use his discretionary power to authorize the recording of the trial:
“For our part, we still have kept the archives, whether in all the trials that we had in Burkina Faso in the Sankara affair, at all the authorities, as well as at the United Nations. And we do hope that these archives will be pieces of anthology of the country ”.
This petition is supported by several civil society organizations including the Balai Citoyen.
Eric Kinda is the spokesperson for this movement:
"The principle of collective memory means that, in the life of a nation, there are important events which mark, we must secure, it must be used for memory. collective ”.
►Also read: The trial of the assassination of Thomas Sankara resumes in Burkina Faso
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