Burkina Ex-leader Compaore apologises to family of slain Sankara

Posted by News Express | 26 July 2022 | 405 times

•Blaise Compaore and late Thomas Sankara

Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, apologised to the ex-leader’s family on Tuesday.

“I ask the Burkinabe people for forgiveness for all the acts I may have committed during my tenure, and especially the family of my brother and friend Thomas Sankara,” he said in a message read out by government spokesman Lionel Bilgo. (AFP)

Source: News Express