The trial of the alleged perpetrators of the assassination, during a coup d'état in 1987, of the "
father of the Burkinabè revolution
" Thomas Sankara, then president of Burkina Faso, was postponed Monday to October 25 at the request of several. defense lawyers.
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The president of the Ouagadougou military court, Urbain Méda, accepted the request of the lawyers who felt they had not had enough time to consult "
the 20,000 documents in the file
".
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