{"id":23081,"date":"2021-04-14T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=23081"},"modified":"2021-04-14T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:04:26","slug":"ousted-burkina-faso-despot-compaore-to-stand-trial-for-thomas-sankara-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/14\/ousted-burkina-faso-despot-compaore-to-stand-trial-for-thomas-sankara-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Burkina Faso Despot Compaor\u00e9 To Stand Trial For Thomas Sankara Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blaise Compaor\u00e9, the former president of Burkina Faso, is to stand trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara, the man who he ousted in 1987, a military tribunal has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Compaor\u00e9 was forced into exile in 2014 after he attempted to change the law to extend his rule. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A military tribunal on Tuesday indicted him for &#8220;attack on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of corpse&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/901cccd8-ec49-43e9-adaa-b13fdedbf2b5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/901cccd8-ec49-43e9-adaa-b13fdedbf2b5-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/901cccd8-ec49-43e9-adaa-b13fdedbf2b5-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/901cccd8-ec49-43e9-adaa-b13fdedbf2b5-1-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>A statue of Thomas Sankara<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirteen other people were among those charged along with the former president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The warrants &#8220;to bring defendants not yet detained&#8221; were issued early Tuesday, one of the accused&#8217;s lawyer told news agency AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was a hugely popular leader and has become a cult figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaise Compaor\u00e9, the former president of Burkina Faso, is to stand trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara, the man who he ousted in 1987, a military tribunal has announced. Mr Compaor\u00e9 was forced into exile in 2014 after he attempted to change the law to extend his rule. A warrant for his arrest was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":23083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-23081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23085,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23081\/revisions\/23085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}