Thomas Sankara, the army captain turned revolutionary who led Burkina Faso in an anti-imperialist coup, was reburied on Thursday at the site in Ouagadougou where he and 12 comrades were murdered in 1987.
Draped in the Burkinabe flag, the remains of the 13 men were reinterred in a private funeral ceremony – nearly eight years after they were exhumed as part of the long-delayed investigation into their deaths, which former president Blaise Compaoré was last year convicted of plotting.
