Burkina Faso

Ladies and gentlemen, dear comrades,

INTRODUCTION

On 30 April 2014, the High Court of Ouagadougou declared that it was not competent to order that DNA expertise be used in the identification of the bodies buried at Dagnoen.

The violent murder of Thomas Sankara is commensurate with the relentlessness of his killers to dishonour and erase him from the memory of his countrymen. By the same token, attempts to make known the circumstances of his assassination seem to encounter powerful forces.

INTRODUCTION

When you are fifty today in Africa, which coincides with fifty years of formal independence of the continent, the Pan-Africanist ideals you can feel inside, the thirst for sovereignty that is irrepressible in your heart, rebellion that nurtures within in order to break the chains of mental slaver

The consternation of a man always ahead of his entourage, betrayal by a friend, destruction of a family losing a beloved one, the life of Thomas Sankara ended in tragedy.