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|wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara | |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara | ||
| − | |birth_date= | + | |birth_date=21 December 1949 |
| − | |birth_place= | + | |birth_place=Yako, French Upper Volta |
|image=Thomas Sankara.jpg | |image=Thomas Sankara.jpg | ||
| − | |death_date= | + | |death_date=1987-10-15 |
| − | |death_place= | + | |death_place=Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
|constitutes=soldier | |constitutes=soldier | ||
|description="Africa's Che Guevara" | |description="Africa's Che Guevara" | ||
|victim_of=assassination | |victim_of=assassination | ||
|wikiquote=http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara | |wikiquote=http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara | ||
| + | |spouses=Mariam Sankara | ||
| + | |employment={{job | ||
| + | |title=President of Burkina Faso | ||
| + | |start=4 August 1983 | ||
| + | |end=15 October 1987 | ||
| + | }}{{job | ||
| + | |title=Prime Minister of Upper Volta | ||
| + | |start=10 January 1983 | ||
| + | |end=17 May 1983 | ||
| + | }} | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Thomas Sankara''', as [[President of Burkina Faso]], left the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]]{{cn}} and in 1985 joined [[Fidel Castro]] in his call for the creation of a common front of Southern countries against paying off debt.<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/people-must-self-organize-keep-up-the-pressure-on-their-governments-if-we-are-to-bring-about-radical-change/5604476</ref> | '''Thomas Sankara''', as [[President of Burkina Faso]], left the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]]{{cn}} and in 1985 joined [[Fidel Castro]] in his call for the creation of a common front of Southern countries against paying off debt.<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/people-must-self-organize-keep-up-the-pressure-on-their-governments-if-we-are-to-bring-about-radical-change/5604476</ref> | ||
Revision as of 22:15, 17 August 2017
 Thomas Sankara     (soldier) | |
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| Born | 21 December 1949 Yako, French Upper Volta |
| Died | 1987-10-15 (Age 37) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
| Spouse | Mariam Sankara |
| Victim of | assassination |
Thomas Sankara, as President of Burkina Faso, left the IMF and World Bank[citation needed] and in 1985 joined Fidel Castro in his call for the creation of a common front of Southern countries against paying off debt.[1]
Assassination
On 15 October 1987, Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d'état.
Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was engineered by Taylor.[2]
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References
- ↑ http://www.globalresearch.ca/people-must-self-organize-keep-up-the-pressure-on-their-governments-if-we-are-to-bring-about-radical-change/5604476
- ↑ "US freed Taylor to overthrow Doe, Liberia's TRC hears". The M&G Online. Retrieved 15 October 2014.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
