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"Tom Sank" as some called it wanted to be a different president, and embodied a certain enthusiasm.
He began by taking some dramatic steps like selling luxury cars with government, and was moving himself in a Renault 5, a car similar to a Renault Twingo today. He did not hesitate to take over some theories of Pan-Africanist Patrice Lumumba and Nkrumah Nkwame.
Text Hervé Mbouguen. Source here.
He urged a fight against corruption, which resulted in the trial broadcast on radio, but without the death penalty. He also undertook a campaign of reforestation of the Sahel to halt the advancing desert.
In a country where life expectancy was barely 40 years, and who had the world record of deaths among children under five years, he developed an extensive campaign to vaccinate children, and construction of hospitals. It showed a modern conception of the status of women, condemning polygamy, banning female circumcision, and appointing several women in his government.
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His vision does not limit only to Burkina Faso since it will be very active in denouncing the neo-colonization, will be a great destroyer of apartheid, and looks great in opposing the payment of debt by Africans. At a summit of the OAU in Addis Ababa, he exclaims "I say that Africans should not pay the debt. Whoever disagrees can go out right away, take a plane and go to the World Bank to Pay. "
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Sankara's attitude, and enjoy great popularity he within the African youth will eventually earn him the distrust of its neighbors, and some Western countries, including France. But as is often the enemy will not come very far.
Rumors of conspiracy rustle in Burkina Faso this country, as we have seen, has often been shaken by coups. Sankara, like everyone else, hears, and he attributes the following words, difficult to verify, but which have helped increase his legend after his death: "You can kill a man, but you can not kill his ideas," or Commenting on the attitude of Blaise Compaore "The day you hear that Blaise Compaore preparing a coup against me is not worth telling me. Because it is too late. "
What is certain is that Compaore ignores the recommendations of Sankara, and lives in luxury.
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Thomas Sankara is meeting with advisors when sounds of automatic weapons resonate. He reportedly told his advisers, "Stay, it's me they want." He left the palace, in shorts, hands in the air, but the rebels had apparently instructed not to arrest but to kill, and a few squalls put an end to his life, and than twelve of his advisers.
As for killing the symbol again, it will be buried in a hurry, and quasi-anonymous.
The shockwave caused by his death in young African and in particular Burkina Faso, has led the regime to give it a more suitable burial.
His "friend" long Blaise Compaore will take power after his death, and claim to have done so because Sankara was planning to assassinate him, but his words did not convince many people.
Asked by a journalist in the aftermath of the coup which raises the question: "Have you have any regrets? Blaise Compaore replied: "Having lost a friend of course, and regret also at one point in his life he [Thomas Sankara] is thought to liquidate us. Damage. This answer given there are over 20 years is one of very few public evocations of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, Blaise Compaore.
In the documentary by Robin Shuffield, "Sankara, a man of integrity," a former military near Sankara, Captain Boukari Kabore said he had asked the latter 'permission to bring order "c' is to say stop Blaise Compaore because he "was planning an assassination plot." Sankara allegedly replied: "Friendship does not betray, this is not for us to betray the friendship, it is up to them to betray it."
In 2008, Blaise Compaore is still president of Burkina Faso. "
(From Portrait of a man of integrity: Thomas Sankara (1949-1987) Hervé Mbouguen )
[... Blaise Compaore was reelected for the umpteenth time in 2010 with 80% of the vote in the silence of the "international community". Last week it was repress live ammunition a demonstration of students in the silence of the "international community" and its media. 5 dead.]
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