{"id":3873,"date":"2021-04-14T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:00:58","slug":"burkina-faso-ex-presidente-compaore-sera-julgado-no-caso-de-assassinato-de-sankara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2021\/04\/14\/burkina-faso-ex-presidente-compaore-sera-julgado-no-caso-de-assassinato-de-sankara\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso: Ex-president Compaor\u00e9 to be tried in Sankara murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a><img class=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/15737999_303.jpg\" src= https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/15737999_303.jpg alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: Africa News <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBurkina Faso&#8217;s former president Blaise Compaor\u00e9, now in exile in Ivory Coast, will stand trial for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, a pan-African icon, during the 1987 coup in which he took power, lawyers told AFP on Tuesday. The case was referred Tuesday to the military court in Ouagadougou, after the confirmation of charges against the main defendants, including Blaise Compaor\u00e9, 34 years after the death of the &#8220;father of the revolution&#8221; Burkinab\u00e9, according to defence lawyers and civil parties. After Gilbert Diendere &#8211; his former right-hand man was prosecuted for complicity in murder, handling corpses and attack on state security. The former president was ousted from power by a popular uprising on October 31 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/04\/13\/burkinabe-ex-president-compaore-stands-trial-in-sankara-murder-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Africa News Burkina Faso&#8217;s former president Blaise Compaor\u00e9, now in exile in Ivory Coast, will stand trial for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, a pan-African icon, during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/2021\/04\/14\/burkina-faso-ex-presidente-compaore-sera-julgado-no-caso-de-assassinato-de-sankara\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burkina Faso: Ex-president Compaor\u00e9 to be tried in Sankara murder case<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[43,182,39,142],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.7","language":"en","enabled_languages":["br","en"],"languages":{"br":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/cebrafrica\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}