Thomas Sankara
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 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").
