Mariam Sankara, Thomas Sankara’s widow, attends the opening of the trial of the alleged perpetrators of the assassination of Thomas Sankara in Ouagadougou, on October 11, 2021. The trial of 14 men, including a former president, began in Burkina Faso on October 11, 2021, over the assassination of the country’s revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 34 years before.
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