Burkina Faso's ex-大統領，／社長 Compaore 手渡すd life 宣告，判決 in absentia over Sankara 殺人
By Thiam Ndiaga
OUAGADOUGOU, April 6 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's former 大統領，／社長 Blaise Compaore was 宣告，判決d in absentia to life 監禁，拘置 for complicity in the 1987 殺人 of his 前任者 Thomas Sankara in a クーデター, a 軍の 法廷 支配するd on Wednesday.
The charismatic Marxist 革命の Sankara was gunned 負かす／撃墜する in the West African nation's 資本／首都 Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took 力／強力にする in a previous putsch.
Two of Compaore's former 最高の，を越す associates, Hyacinthe Kafando and Gilbert Diendere, were also 宣告，判決d to life 監禁，拘置.
All three have 以前 否定するd 関与 in Sankara's death along with eleven other 被告s （刑事）被告 of 関与 in the 陰謀（を企てる）. Three of the eleven were 宣言するd innocent and the 残り／休憩（する） received 刑務所，拘置所 条件 of between three and 20 years.
Compaore was 設立する 有罪の of an attack on 明言する／公表する 安全, complicity in 殺人 and concealment of a 死体, the 法廷 said in its 判決，裁定.
He went on to 支配する for 27 years before 存在 追い出すd in another クーデター in 2014 and 逃げるing to Ivory Coast, where he is still believed to live.
'AFRICA'S CHE GUEVERA'
Sankara, who 伸び（る）d a 評判 as Africa's "Che Guevara", took 力／強力にする on a 約束 to 妨害する 汚職 and 地位，任命する-植民地の 影響（力）s, 公然と非難するing foreign 援助（する） as a 支配（する）／統制する 機械装置.
He rolled out 集まり ワクチン接種 against polio, banned 女性（の） circumcision and polygamy, and was one of the first African leaders to 公然と recognise the growing エイズ 疫病／流行性の as a 脅し for the continent.
A former 闘士，戦闘機 操縦する, Sankara won public support in the 貧窮化した nation by selling a 政府 (n)艦隊／(a)素早い of Mercedes, lowering the 支払う／賃金 of 井戸／弁護士席-off public servants and forbidding first class 明言する／公表する travel.
He 削減（する） his own salary, 辞退するd to work with 空気／公表する 条件ing and jogged through Ouagadougou unaccompanied.
Critics say his 改革（する）s curtailed freedoms and did little to 濃厚にする ordinary people. But a dmiration remains and 司法（官） has been long-を待つd by Sankara's family and 支持者s.
"I think Burkinabe know now who Thomas Sankara was... what he 手配中の，お尋ね者 and what those who assassinated him 手配中の，お尋ね者 too," said Sankara's 未亡人, Mariam Sankara, speaking at the courthouse.
A 行列 and 集会 are planned later in the day at the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す Sankara was 発射, where a statue of him now stands.
"Today I am very proud to see the culmination of a 合法的な 戦う／戦い of almost 30 years, proud to have a country where 司法（官） 作品," said Guy Herve Kam, a lawyer for Sankara's family. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Thiam Ndiaga; 令状ing by Nellie Peyton and Sofia Christensen; Editing by James Macharia Chege, Alexandra Hudson)
