People of Burkina Faso Drive Blaise Campaoré from Power
By <
http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/ann-garrison> Ann Garrison
Global Research, November 04, 2014
Watch the following Videos:
1. Thomas Sankara :The Upright Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5USbA701SI
2. Thomas Sankara - Speech Against Debt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx2PoOY3ADo
KPFA Evening News Anchor: In 1987, African revolutionary Thomas Sankara, the
president of Burkina Faso, called on his fellow African heads of state to
join him in refusing to pay debt they could not rationally owe to their
former colonizers, calling it a form of neo-colonialism. He predicted that
he would be dead before the next African Union conference if he alone
refused to pay. Sankara was dead, with France’s help, within the year.
Yesterday, 27 years and 16 days after his death, hundreds of thousands of
people took to the streets in Ouagadougou to demand the resignation of
Sankara’s assassin, President Blaise Campaoré. Protestors even lit the
country’s Parliament Building on fire to keep its members from amending the
Constitution to allow Campaoré to remain in power. KPFA’s Ann Garrison has
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