The ghost of Thomas Sankara - Burkina Faso on a roll.
Oct 31, 2014 20:42:57 GMT 3
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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Oct 31, 2014 20:42:57 GMT 3
Hasta la vista... A dictator bites the dust. Well done and congratulations to the people of Burkina Faso. Please make your new government worthy of Thomas Sankara (whose death should now be independently investigated)
I doubt we will ever know the full details of the murder of Sankara as it probably would reveal more than a smidge of French and possible US complicity in his assassination. Sankara was a thorn in the colonial France's side. For those with patronizing and condescending attitude implying that there can never be a good African leader, Sankara was one who was close to creating a pan-African utopia but was wiped out because of it. Thinking of Compaore's betrayal of him, Dr Faustus springs to mind, offered 24 years of absolute power to oppress black people.
For Burkina Faso, I hope justice is not far away. A sealed indictment was issued by the Special Court for Sierra Leone relating to offences committed during the civil war and was the basis for the arrest and trial of the condemned Charles Taylor. It later emerged that similar sealed indictments relating to the same offences were issued against Gadaffi and against Blaise Campaore. Gadaffi is dead. Campaore is deposed. Does the Special Court now intend to take action against Campaore? Hope so.
Campaore was a dictator with close ties to the US......well that is hardly a surprise. I suppose he will now bugger off to some neutral European country where his stolen money is stashed, or perhaps the US will grant him diplomatic immunity.
If the US still remembers Kennedy as an embodiment of the possibility of new generation well Thomas Sankara was more for Africans. Compaore killed him, his best friend and destroyed his revolution. It has been 27 years in the making but the time for justice has come for treachery and murder. The loss of Thomas Sankara was a tragedy for Africa, on a similar scale to the loss of Nkrumah, Lumumba and Machel. I hope Blaise Compaore is arrested and investigated for
his crimes, more so the murder of Thomas Sankara. It took 27'yrs to come to this day. Now we can rest the ghost of Thomas Sankara.
I doubt we will ever know the full details of the murder of Sankara as it probably would reveal more than a smidge of French and possible US complicity in his assassination. Sankara was a thorn in the colonial France's side. For those with patronizing and condescending attitude implying that there can never be a good African leader, Sankara was one who was close to creating a pan-African utopia but was wiped out because of it. Thinking of Compaore's betrayal of him, Dr Faustus springs to mind, offered 24 years of absolute power to oppress black people.
For Burkina Faso, I hope justice is not far away. A sealed indictment was issued by the Special Court for Sierra Leone relating to offences committed during the civil war and was the basis for the arrest and trial of the condemned Charles Taylor. It later emerged that similar sealed indictments relating to the same offences were issued against Gadaffi and against Blaise Campaore. Gadaffi is dead. Campaore is deposed. Does the Special Court now intend to take action against Campaore? Hope so.
Campaore was a dictator with close ties to the US......well that is hardly a surprise. I suppose he will now bugger off to some neutral European country where his stolen money is stashed, or perhaps the US will grant him diplomatic immunity.
If the US still remembers Kennedy as an embodiment of the possibility of new generation well Thomas Sankara was more for Africans. Compaore killed him, his best friend and destroyed his revolution. It has been 27 years in the making but the time for justice has come for treachery and murder. The loss of Thomas Sankara was a tragedy for Africa, on a similar scale to the loss of Nkrumah, Lumumba and Machel. I hope Blaise Compaore is arrested and investigated for
his crimes, more so the murder of Thomas Sankara. It took 27'yrs to come to this day. Now we can rest the ghost of Thomas Sankara.