The junta’s message of “forgive and forget” isn’t going to be accepted easily by the public, said Laith Alkhouri, CEO of Intelonyx Intelligence Advisory. The junta will continue discussions with those who were unable to attend the meeting, he said. “To the Burkinabe who have expressed their opinions against our approach, we tell them that the process is not made to consecrate impunity, but to contribute to the search for solutions for a Burkina Faso of peace and cohesion,” he said. In a statement on state television, Damiba defended his decision to allow Compaore to visit the country.
Local rights organizations warn that by giving Compaore impunity the junta has taken an “extremely serious step,” that undermines the rule of law in Burkina Faso, Chrysogone Zougmore, president of the Burkinabe Movement for Human Rights, told The Associated Press.
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Blaise Compaore was sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial of the military court of Ouagadougou and he is still subject to an arrest warrant issued against him by the military court,” said Benewende Stanislas Sankara, spokesman for the Sankara family. Lawyers for the Sankara family have called for his arrest. Although in exile in neighboring Ivory Coast, a Burkina Faso court recently convicted him of complicity in the murder in 1987 of former President Thomas Sankara and sentenced him to life in prison. Others in the capital protested the return of Compaore, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 30 years. So I am in front of his doors and I said he must not move,” said Ahmed Ki, a Kabore supporter.
“If Roch Marc Christian Kabore still has some dignity he should normally refuse to go to this meeting. Riot police gathered outside Kabore’s house Friday to control the protesters. The Direction des archives, with its dozen archivists in the 1980s, had not produced a single inventory of what could be found in the capital (Ouagadougou) or in the regions, although important work had been done by individual archivists appointed to specific Ministries or by expatriate researchers.Burkina Faso to create military zones to fight jihadi rebels Indeed Burkina Faso is probably the only country in the world to possess more archivists than organized archives. This institutional constraint on the organization of complete sets of archival documents for the study of the region's past has been strengthened by a well-known post-independence symptom: bureaucratic plethora. Researchers who have worked on this part of the French empire know that every adjustment brought to the administrative arrangement also caused personnel and documents to be displaced to the new centers-Abidjan, Niamey, or Bamako. After harsh negotiations the colony of Upper Volta was recreated in 1947. The northwestern part (i.e., Ouahigouya) was ceded to the French Sudan, the central and southwestern regions (Mosi and Bobo) to Côte d'Ivoire, and a small portion of the eastern portion (Fada N'Gourma) to Niger. Created in 1919 out of the oversized Haut-Sénégal-Niger-which extended from the Sénégal river to lake Chad-in order to rationalize the administration Upper Volta survived as an autonomous colony until January 1933, when it was officially dismembered.
A case in point is the tortuous history of colonial administration in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Fluctuations of colonial policies toward territorial integrity were not without effects, first on the people of these colonies and then on the organization of their own administration.
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