Burkina Faso: Former President Compaoré apologizes to the Sankara family
Former Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré, here on May 15, 2013, in Brussels.
AFP - THIERRY CHARLIER
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A delegation from the Ivorian government was received this Tuesday morning July 26 in Ouagadougou by the president of the Burkinabe transition.
An Ivorian delegation carrying a letter from Blaise Compaoré.
If we are to believe the Burkinabé government, in this letter, there is talk of an apology from Blaise Compaoré with regard to the Sankara family.
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With our correspondent in Ouagadougou
,
Yaya Boudani
Blaise Compaoré
apologizes to the people of Burkina Faso for all the acts he may have committed during his mandate, more particularly to the family of his "
brother and friend
"
Thomas Sankara
, he specified.
“
I assume and I deplore from the bottom of my heart all the suffering and the dramas experienced by all the victims during all the time that I spent at the head of Burkina Faso
.
He asks all the families to grant him forgiveness.
“
I hope that we can move forward now, to rebuild our common destiny on the land of our ancestors
,” he said in this message addressed to the people of Burkina Faso and to President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
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