OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — After months of tension, a section of Burkina Faso’s military officers led by Captain Blaise Compaoré deposed President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo on Aug. 3, 1983, replacing him with Captain Noël Isidore Thomas Sankara, aged 33. Four years later, the same officers who propped Sankara to power, led by his friend, Compaoré, orchestrated another military coup, killing Sankara and 12 others. […]

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