Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Burkina Faso: Closing arguments begin in 1987 Sankara killing trial” – below is their description.
Closing arguments have begun in the trial of more than a dozen defendants accused over the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former President Thomas Sankara.
The African icon was killed with 12 others in a coup in 1987.
Among those accused of his murder are former president Blaise Compaore and his close aide General Gilbert Diendere, a former head of the elite Presidential Security Regiment.
Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from Ouagadougou.
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