Thomas Sankara Was So Popular Among His People That Even In Death,His People Still Loved And Adored Him,A Note Was Left At His Graveside Which Reads
"Do Not Worry,Mama Sankara,We Will Avenge Your Son's Death,We Are All Sankara's
Sankara Lived a Brief But Eventful Life,Born December 1949 and Died October 1987 at a Young Age Of 38,Sankara Was The President Of Burkina Faso From 1983-1987,When He Assumed Power,The Country Was Named Upper Volta But He Changed The Name Of The Country To Burkina Faso Which Means A Land Of Upright People,Thomas Sankara Was a Upright Man By All Standards,He Believed So Much In Equality As Be was A Strong Feminist Who Would Always Stand To Defend The Women Folk
Thomas Sankara's Death Is One That Is Filled With Lessons For Humanity, Sankara Was Not Quite Pleased With Happenings In The Country At The Time,Too Many Things Were Going Wrong,So He Invited 13 Others To a Closed Door Meeting At The National Headquarters So As To Discuss The Way Forward But It Turned Out That Will Be The Last Meeting He Will Ever Play Host To
At The National Headquarters,The Meeting Began at 04:15pm,They Had Hardly Begun The Meeting When Gunshots Were Heard Outside at Exactly 04:30pm,Two Personal Bodyguards of Thomas Sankara and Sankara's Personal Driver Were The First To Taste Death On That Day,The Shooting Continued and Everybody In The Meeting Had No Choice But To Take Cover,Sankara Immediately Thought Of A Way He Could Save The Life Of Everybody In That Room
As at This Time,His Aide Was Still By His Side,He Famously Said
Step Aside,It is Me They Want,With Both Hands Raised and Without Any Weapon On Him,He Proceeded Outside To Meet Those Whose Sole Aim Was To Assassinate Him,Immediately He Stepped His Foot Outside,It Seems The Sight Of Thomas Sankara Angered The Killers Even More As They Riddle His Body With Hot Bullets,The Actual Numbers Of Bullets That Penetrated His Body Was Not Known But He was Shot Beyond Recognition
If What He Did Was To Save Those Inside The Room,If He Believed That After The Killers Must Have Killed Him,They Will Leave,He Was Wrong,The Killers Proceeded To The Room Where The Meeting Was Being Held and They Sprayed Bullets as If They are Playacting In a Movie,Everybody Lost Their Life That Day Except For a Certain Alouna Traore,On The Eve Of Sankara's Assasination,His Longtime Friend And Colleague Blaise Compaore Would Assume His Position
Sankara and Compaore
It Was a Clear Case Of Betrayal On The Part Of Compaore Because He Assassinated Sankara,He Denied His Involvement In The Killings As He Said That He Was At Home At The Time and He Was Very Sick,But All Evidence Point To The Fact That He Gave The Orders For Those Trigger Happy Men To Kill Sankara,As If That Was Not Enough,He Assumed The Position Of Sankara After His Death,He Had Been In The Plan All Along,He Knew About It,African Leaders and Greed are Indeed Inseparable
What is Even More Baffling Was That When Sankara and Compaore Met For The First Time In Morocco,They Immediately Struck a Bond Of Friendship,They Seems Inseparable,Hence When Sankara Assumed The Position Of President,He Made Compaore His Deputy But It Was a Fatal Decision That Would Cut Short Not Just His Political Life But His Very Existence
Blaise Compaore
After Blaise Compaore Assumed Power In 1987,He Would Go Ahead To Rule The Country For 27 Years,But In 2014,The Spirit Of Sankara Came Back To Haunt Him,He Was In a Bid To Extend His Tenure For Another 5 Years When Protesters Took To The Street, When The Heat Became Too Much For Him To Bear,He Escaped To Neighbouring Ivory Coast,He Was Extremely Lucky To Escape With His Life
The Interferance From The Western World Did Not Go Down Well With Sankara As He Believed Those People Always Have a Hidden Agenda
As If He Saw His Death Coming,A Day Before Sankara Was Killed,He Famously Said
You Can Kill a Revolutionist But More and More Revolutionists Will Arise,You Can't Fight The Truth
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