The body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara has been buried alongside 12 of his comrades at the spot where they were assassinated in a coup three decades ago.
The ceremony was held in the presence of Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Apollinaire de Tambèla.
Sankara came to power in August 1983 as an army captain.
Nicknamed Africa’s Che Guevara, he was a fiery Marxist-Leninist who blasted the West for neo-colonialism and hypocrisy.
He changed the country’s name from the colonial-era Upper Volta to Burkina Faso -meaning “the land of honest men” – and pushed through a range of reforms, including promoting vaccination and banning female genital mutilation.
