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Only survivor of 1987 Burkina coup relives Thomas Sankara's assassination / V000_9PC9RK
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Halouné Traoré, a former comrade of pan-African icon and Burkina Faso ex-president Thomas Sankara, explains how he was the only one to survive the 1987 coup where Sankara was assassinated, along with 12 others. 34 years on, the perpetrators are finally scheduled to eb tried open Monday in Ouagadougou. Traoré hopes that at the trial "the truth finally gets told" about Sankara's assassination but accepts will not be able to restore "the dreams we had for Burkina". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
