Thomas Sankara person
also: Sakaro, Sankara, Sankaro, Santari, Saqqara, Samkara
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Claims (14)
Thomas Sankara carried_out_attack
Yamoussa Ouedraogo host_asserted
“Best friends, they were in a music band together, traveled all over the area. And Sankara's parents adopted Kampari because his parents had died when he was very young. So basically, they're literally legally brothers. And in 1983, the two …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 22:51
Blaise Compaoré assassinated
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“his adopted brother becomes deputy. But four years later, in an act of treachery, Kampari and a group of commandos storm a government building where Sakaro is in a meeting and basically shoots him at point-blank range. Most of the people, b…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 23:51
Gilbert Diendéré assassinated
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“referred to him as a traitor to the revolution, an aristocrat, and basically said he was guilty of high treason and engaged in mysticism, which sounds exactly like the CIA, but hey. The commandos that executed Sankara included a guy by the …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 42:16
Blaise Compaoré assassinated
Thomas Sankara guest_asserted
“and the country of Chad's president, along with a white Frenchman who was probably part of the Foucart network, which is basically Gladio for France. At the meeting, it was decided that Taylor would be able to use Burkina Faso as a launchin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 54:39
United States assassinated
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“provided the data that his assassination of Samkara was with the assistance of the US and French intelligence services. The Wall Street Journal made it seem like the US was seeking to establish new drone bases outside of Niger because they …”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 17:59
France assassinated
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“provided the data that his assassination of Samkara was with the assistance of the US and French intelligence services. The Wall Street Journal made it seem like the US was seeking to establish new drone bases outside of Niger because they …”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 17:59
Blaise Compaoré assassinated
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“in November 2015, in the first elections since President Camorra, the guy that we talked about yesterday, who murdered his friend Sankara with U.S. and French support. Camorra was the former prime minister for, let's see, two years, and a l…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 30:08
France assassinated
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“He has taken an explicitly anti-Western stance, much more so than his Paris-trained predecessor, Damibe. This has proven to be especially popular with the masses, among who anti-imperialist sentiments towards their former colonial power has…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 37:00
Thomas Sankara traded_network_to
Cuba host_asserted
“among themselves to do much better. Sankara additionally forged relationships with non-traditional states such as Cuba. He repudiated an IMF structural adjustment program that would have forced him to cut back social services. So I just wan…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 32:37
Thomas Sankara traded_network_to
Ghana host_asserted
“And Ghana Economic Union with a new currency that would end the dependence on the French franc. That really was his death sentence. He basically was doing a mini African community, which later would then expand with Gaddafi's support into a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 32:08
Blaise Compaoré overthrew
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“After Kampore's unpopular attempt to change the constitution and extend his term limit, the move had ultimately led to his November 2014 downfall. I was living in Burkina Faso at the time and recall seeing pictures of Sankara being waved on…”
▶ Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin @ 30:38
La FrancAfrique carried_out_attack
Thomas Sankara host_asserted
“This shadow network was termed La Franca Afrique and was still operational when Sankara was killed. Though its records remain classified, we know that French agents were present at the time of Sankara's assassination and had spoken about de…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 43:46
France ordered_assassination_of
Thomas Sankara guest_asserted
“So, according to Cecil Allen, another of Taylor's top aides, the Americans and French sanctioned the plan to remove Sankara. Allen stated that, quote, there was a CIA operative in the U.S. embassy in Burkina Faso, worked closely with the Se…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 56:04
Thomas Sankara traded_network_to
Muammar Gaddafi host_asserted
“And Ghana Economic Union with a new currency that would end the dependence on the French franc. That really was his death sentence. He basically was doing a mini African community, which later would then expand with Gaddafi's support into a…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 32:08
Mentions (36)
▶ 19:25
challenge, obviously, that this country had, because as with all of the former European colonies, they left most of the people there uneducated and basically no health care because they frankly didn't care if they died. As a matter of fact,…
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Burkina Faso. So we're going to take most of this information from his article. And his first name is Thomas Sankara. And his best friend, Blaise, B-L-A-I-S-E, Kampari, C-O-M-P-A-O-R-E, grew up…
▶ 22:51
Best friends, they were in a music band together, traveled all over the area. And Sankara's parents adopted Kampari because his parents had died when he was very young. So basically, they're literally legally brothers. And in 1983, the two …
▶ 23:22
I was in charge in 1903 is John Batista Quadrago. His last name is O-U-E-D-R-A-O-G-O. And I know I'm butchering these names, but just bear with me. I'll at least consistently mispronounce them. So Sankara becomes president and Kampari.…
▶ 23:51
his adopted brother becomes deputy. But four years later, in an act of treachery, Kampari and a group of commandos storm a government building where Sakaro is in a meeting and basically shoots him at point-blank range. Most of the people, b…
▶ 27:40
That actually made statements that of what happened. And he was the aid to a Liberian warlord that happened to be present at the assassination. And he said, I was right there when Thomas Sankara said, because you are my best friend, I call …
▶ 28:11
Sankara said to Kampari when he pulled the gun on him. Upon hearing those words, Kampari allegedly made an irritated gesture, said something to Sankara in France, and then shot him. If he had not done so, there was another gunman there that…
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The verdict was greeted by Sankara's supporters and Sankara's widow, who had moved to the south of France, fearing her own safety in the aftermath of the assassination.…
▶ 31:10
Kampari thwarted attempts to investigate the circumstances of the death, including repeated calls for his body to be exhumed. As I stated earlier, Sankara was called the African Sheikha Vera, and he oversaw huge increases in health and educ…
▶ 31:39
He basically took heritable farmland and gave it to the people so that they could basically like an Allende. Of course, he ended up dead, as did the guy in Guatemala. I mean, in Nicaragua. Only 37 at the time of his death, he broke the powe…
▶ 32:08
And Ghana Economic Union with a new currency that would end the dependence on the French franc. That really was his death sentence. He basically was doing a mini African community, which later would then expand with Gaddafi's support into a…
▶ 32:37
among themselves to do much better. Sankara additionally forged relationships with non-traditional states such as Cuba. He repudiated an IMF structural adjustment program that would have forced him to cut back social services. So I just wan…
▶ 33:59
international syndicate asswipes, and they dictate to these developing countries who are struggling to educate their people. And then, of course, you know, the round robin is you have the assholes like Eric Prince screaming about how ineffe…
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was valued by outside powers because of its possession of rare earth minerals, including copper, zinc, limestone, manganese, phosphate, and gold, which Sankara sought to keep under national control. Kampari, by contrast, after he murdered S…
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Continuing to cycle the foreign economic domination and underdevelopment of the country in December, which is, of course, why the CIA helped him. In December 1988, the World Bank report tellingly praised the remarkably high standards of fin…
▶ 41:20
pretend that they have an ISIS problem from Africa, like in Kenya, to Haiti, to police Haiti. Exactly. Not a coincidence, right? No. So, on the day that Sankara was murdered, he had had a meeting with members of his cabinet when soldiers st…
▶ 41:47
Sankara spoke up and said it's me they're looking for and went outside to face his assassins who killed him and 12 of his associates. The findings of the autopsy made public in 2015 corroborated that Sankara had been assassinated while hold…
▶ 42:16
referred to him as a traitor to the revolution, an aristocrat, and basically said he was guilty of high treason and engaged in mysticism, which sounds exactly like the CIA, but hey. The commandos that executed Sankara included a guy by the …
▶ 43:46
This shadow network was termed La Franca Afrique and was still operational when Sankara was killed. Though its records remain classified, we know that French agents were present at the time of Sankara's assassination and had spoken about de…
▶ 45:35
France and their secret stay-behind units in the western part of Africa, just so coincidentally. The French had wanted Sankara removed from the earliest days of his rule because he opposed the colonial model that favored French interest in …
▶ 46:03
had actually said this. This is a quote. We cannot understand why bandits like Jonas Savimbi, who was Angolian warlord backed by the CIA. And remember, we've already talked about Angola. Killers like Peter Botha, who was the South African l…
▶ 47:27
These comments made Sankara a marked man. Mitterrand afterwards said, quote, I admired Sankara's great qualities, but he is too forthright. In my opinion, he goes too far. This is somewhat troublesome man, this President Sankara. Yeah, I be…
▶ 47:56
Patrice Lumumba of Congo, who was assassinated soon after he publicly criticized their colonial system as well. U.S. diplomats had a view of Sankara similar to Mitterrand's. One diplomat, John C. Baxter, was expelled from Burkina Faso for s…
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The U.S. military training programs has provided access to the very center of power with the U.S. embassy holding a seminar for senior military officers, including Kampari. International military education and training program graduates wer…
▶ 49:36
N-E-H-E-R, who had worked in Congo after Lumumba's assassination. Again, they just repeat the same people. Characterize Burkina Faso under Saqqara as a very radical, very troublesome country for you asshole international syndicate mafia, wh…
▶ 17:02
who invoked the legacy of Sankara. And remember, we talked about Sankara. Burkina Faso, socialist anti-imperialist president from 1983 to 87. That's Sankara. He was a pan-African ally of Omar Gaddafi.…
▶ 17:28
Very well liked. Sankara is the one that they called the African Che Kavira because he wanted independence from the imperialist and he wanted all African countries to benefit from their own resources. And keep in mind, he's the guy that Spa…
▶ 17:59
provided the data that his assassination of Samkara was with the assistance of the US and French intelligence services. The Wall Street Journal made it seem like the US was seeking to establish new drone bases outside of Niger because they …
▶ 30:08
in November 2015, in the first elections since President Camorra, the guy that we talked about yesterday, who murdered his friend Sankara with U.S. and French support. Camorra was the former prime minister for, let's see, two years, and a l…
▶ 30:38
After Kampore's unpopular attempt to change the constitution and extend his term limit, the move had ultimately led to his November 2014 downfall. I was living in Burkina Faso at the time and recall seeing pictures of Sankara being waved on…
▶ 31:08
thanks to the CIA. By the end of Capore's rule, Burkina Faso was among the poorest nations in Africa, with almost half of the country living under the poverty line. And the poverty line there is ridiculously low. The rapid development and p…
▶ 31:37
to basically the French business oligarchs, their political interests. Kampari's unpopular contrasts significantly with the widespread popularity of Sankara, whose goal was Pan-Africa, whose radical ideas have seen a recent resurgence. But …
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failed to capitalize on both Sankara's popularity and his policies. Years into his democratic government, 2015 to 2022, old friends in the country informed me of a feeling of dissatisfaction among the youth over the lack of meaningful chang…
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Resentment and unpopularity creates this chaos. Capore was then removed in a coup by Lieutenant Colonel D'Amiba just two months later in January 2022. In his first speech, he blamed the president for the violence. D'Amiba made sure not to r…
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He has taken an explicitly anti-Western stance, much more so than his Paris-trained predecessor, Damibe. This has proven to be especially popular with the masses, among who anti-imperialist sentiments towards their former colonial power has…
▶ 37:29
which they all view as the father of the nation. Trahore comes from a very modest class background, somewhat similar to Sankara. Like Sankara, he sees power at the age of 33, making him the youngest head of state in the world. He is very mu…