Thomas Sankara

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Victim ofassassination
"Africa's Che Guevara"

Thomas Sankara, as President of Burkina Faso, left the IMF and World Bank[citation needed] and in 1985 joined Fidel Castro in his call for the creation of a common front of Southern countries against paying off debt.[1]

Assassination

On 15 October 1987, Sankara was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d'état.

Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was engineered by Taylor.[2]

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