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In Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré made his first official outing following his appointment as president of the transition at the Thomas Sankara memorial site. He laid a wreath of flowers at the foot of the giant statue. Under the acclamation of many young people present on the spot, Colonel Pierre Ouedraogo, president of the International Memorial Committee Thomas Sankara, gave him a torch of the revolution.
With our correspondent in Ouagadougou, Yaya Boudani
While welcoming the holding of the Thomas Sankara assassination trial and his companions through military justice, the international memorial committee Thomas Sankara pleads for the opening of a trial on the international aspect of this case.
« In addition to the need for strict compliance with the application of court decisions resulting from the trial, we ask the State of Burkina Faso to provide military justice with the necessary means for the international aspect of the trial so that the international culprits are designated and that the right be said “, declared Colonel Pierre Ouedraogo, president of the international memorial committee Thomas Sankara.
After the laying of a wreath in tribute to Sankara and his companions, the president of the transition, captain Ibrahim Traoré, and several young people received a torch of the revolution. ” We hope that they can always draw their energies, their resources from this heritage which was bequeathed by Captain Thomas Sankara to pursue his ideal “says Abderahmane Zetyenga, comrade in arms of Thomas Sankara.
A torch that Serge Bayala considers the symbol of popular diplomacy to promote the ideals defended by the revolutionary captain: ” It’s a load. I receive this torch as a call to duty, to a contract with Sankara. »
The Thomas Sankara memorial committee wishes that the dialogue between the army and the family continue so that a concerted solution is found for the burial of the martys of October 15, 1987.
