Former President Blaise Compaoré has been sentenced to life in jail for the assassination of his predecessor, the revered Thomas Sankara, by a Burkinabe court on Wednesday.
Sankara was assassinated on October 15, 1987, during a coup led by his friend and comrade-in-arms Compaoré.
The six-month trial came to an end on Wednesday with the long-awaited verdict.
Sankara, a pan-Africanist politician who came to power in 1983, was assassinated together with 12 other government leaders when he was 37 years old.
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Compaoré was being tried alongside 13 others in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou.
Military prosecutors had asked a 30-year jail term.
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