> Broken dreams: Burkina's orphans schooled in Castro's Cuba / V000_9RF9KU
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Broken dreams: Burkina's orphans schooled in Castro's Cuba / V000_9RF9KU
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Thirty-five years ago, Burkina Faso's radical leader Thomas Sankara sent 600 youngsters, most of them orphans, to train in Cuba -- a scheme, he declared, that would steer the country to a new dawn. Today, scores of those who were enrolled in his scheme have died before their time, some by suicide, and many have mental health problems. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES