Benewende Stanislas Sankara, a lawyer for the Sankaras, expressed regret for the property ruling and said the family was considering whether to appeal.<\/p>\n

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A fiery Marxist-Leninist who blasted the West for neo-colonialism and hypocrisy, Sankara was shot dead on October 15 1987, little more than four years after coming to power as an army captain aged just 33.<\/p>\n

He and 12 colleagues were killed by a hit squad at a meeting of the ruling National Revolutionary Council.<\/p>\n

Discussing the leftwing icon’s death was taboo throughout Compaore’s 27-year reign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday ordered ex-president Blaise Compaore and nine others to pay more than a million dollars in damages to relatives of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and aides who were assassinated in 1987.   The order comes after a trial last month that sentenced the group to long jail terms, ending a case that afflicted the Sahel state for 34 years. A former comrade-in-arms of Sankara, Compaore took power during a putsch on the day of the assassination, ruling until 2014, when he was toppled by mass protests and fled abroad. Judge Urbain Meda, presiding over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yeswecantv-news"],"yoast_head":"\n