It may have taken 34 years, but the decision to bring the murderers of Thomas Sankara to book is an important warning to assassins and their backers.
On Tuesday, a military tribunal in Burkina Faso charged former president Blaise Compaoré with complicity in the assassination of Thomas Sankara in 1987. This is a potentially significant development.
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