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Ex-president sentenced to life over Sankara murder
Mr Sankara, a Marxist revolutionary, was gunned down by a group of armed men in Burkina Faso in 1987.
A military tribunal in Burkina Faso has sentenced former President Blaise Compaore, in his absence, to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara.
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