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INSANE: Burkinabe prosecutors seek 30 years for compaore in murder trial | Vintage Vibes

Former President Blaise Compaore ruled for 27 years before being deposed by a popular uprising in 2014 and fleeing to neighbouring Ivory Coast [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]

Military prosecutors in Burkina Faso have requested 30 years in jail for former President Blaise Compaore over the 1987 murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara.

The court was asked on Tuesday to find him guilty in absentia of an “attack on state security”, “concealment of a corpse” and “complicity in a murder”.

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