Burkina Faso: French MP Demands Inquiry Into Murder of Burkina Faso President Sankara

A French left-wing Member of Parliament is calling on the government to shed light on the assassination of Burkina Faso president Thomas Sankara in a coup d'état 25 years ago.

Communist MP André Chassaigne says a commission of inquiry should investigate the coup that was then supported by Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Libya, the US and France.

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