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Blaise Compaore, the then Burkina Faso president, speaks to journalists in Paris on September 18, 2012. He has been handed a life sentence over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. PHOTO | AFP
Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced in absentia to life in jail over his role in the 1987 murder of the country’s revolutionary folk hero Thomas Sankara, a military court ruled on Wednesday, bringing the curtain down on a case that has tormented the West African nation for more than three decades.