Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara
Thomas Sankara ; (soldier);
Born	21 December 1949; Yako, French Upper Volta
Died	1987-10-15 (Age 37); Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Spouse	Mariam Sankara
Victim of	assassination
	President of Burkina Faso
In office
	4 August 1983 - 15 October 1987
	Prime Minister of Upper Volta
In office
	10 January 1983 - 17 May 1983

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]

In October 2021, fourteen men are going on trial charged with murder.^[3]

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