![]() ![]() Burkina Faso opens graves to answer questions about Thomas Sankara., BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO, Associated Press May 25, 2015 "We want the truth!" Burkina Faso exhumes graves marked for ex-leader Sankara, his followers.Thomas Sankara remains: Burkina Faso begins exhumation.Burkina Faso Begins Exhumation Of Thomas Sankara's Grave Nearly 30 Years After His Death.Thomas Sankara : Man of Integrity, Ynug Anabel, April 26, 2017.Burkinabe ex-President Compaore charged in Thomas Sankara murder.More mass protests against proposed constitutional changes to allow the president another five years in power turn into a mass uprising that drives President Compaore from office. On the twentieth anniversary of Sankara's death, his widow Mariam Serme who lives in exile, comes back for the first time to Burkina Faso and visits his presumed grave.īlaise Compaoré is elected for a fourth mandate of president of Faso. He starts a policy of « rectification of the Revolution ».īlaise Compaoré is elected president of the Republic in a democratic vote that is boycotted by the main opposition parties.Ī main Ouagadougou avenue is renamed after Sankara. Blaise Compaoré takes power and replaces the National Committee for the Revolution by a Popular Front. From 8-11 October an Anti-Apartheid Pan African conference is held in Ouagadougou.Īlong with twelve of his colleagues, Sankara is executed by a military squad. The National Union of Burkina Farmers is created on 11 April. On 17 November, French president François Mitterand visits Ouagadougou. In October, Sankara visits the Soviet Union. Literacy campaign for national languages. A national conference for women is held from 1-8 March. Launching of a massive reafforestation campaign. On 31 December, rents for the year 1985 are suspended and he launches a house-building program. On 25 November, he launches a vaccination campaign for Burkinabés under15 years old. On 4 October, Sankara makes a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. Men are invited to perform household chores that were the women's privilege until then. Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso, « the Land of the Upright Men ».Ģ2 September is proclaimed the day of solidarity with housewives in Ouagadougou. The National Concil of the Revolution takes power and Sankara becomes president.įirst anniversary of the revolution. He is suddenly arrested on 17 May, the dayīlaise Compaoré marches on Ouagadougou, frees Sankara and overthrows Ouédraogo. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo becomes president. Saye Zarbo is overthrown and replaced by a provisional Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress. He resigns one year later in protest against the open threats to freedom, and is transferred to a faraway garrison. Sankara accepts the post of secretary of state for information under Saye Zerbo. Colonel Saye Zerbo takes the head of a military committee for national recovery and progress. Sankara does a course at the Rabat, Morocco parachutists' school where he makes friends with Blaise Compaoré.įollowing many strikes in Upper Volta, the Lamizana government is overthrown. The same year, he goes to Pau, France for a parachutist course. Sankara enters the military school of Ouagadougou.Ĭompleting his military training in Magadascar since two years, Sankara participates in the May Revolution that overthrows the neo-colonial regime of Tsiranana. Opposed by the people because of his austerity policy, Maurice Yaméogo is overthrown and replaced by the military government of Colonel Lamizana. Proclamation of the independance of Upper Volta. Its first president, Maurice Yaméogo, is elected in December 1959. ![]() Thomas Sankara is born in Yako, Upper Volta.Ĭreation of the Republic of Upper Volta, member of the French community. The colonial territory of Upper Volta is cut into pieces and split between the Ivory Coast, Mali and Niger. The Mossi kingdom of Ouagadougou becomes a French protectorate.
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