Blaise Compaoré person
also: Blaise Kampari, C-O-M-P-A-O-R-E, Campari, Kampari, Kapari, Kampore, Camorra, Capore, Qatari
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Claims (12)
United States trained
Blaise Compaoré host_asserted
“for the other people to accept Sankara because of the fear that the Pan-Africa movement would spread. So after Kampari seized power, the Reagan administration trained and funded the army in an attempt to stabilize his rule.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 52:24
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
Blaise Compaoré married
Chantal Compaoré host_asserted
“No one's allowed to exhume his body to even see how many times he was shot or where he was shot or anything. But many whistleblowers inside the inner circle of the government said that Campari married a woman whose name was Chantal. C-H-A-N…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 24:22
Blaise Compaoré carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“Which, hello, that's exactly what it is. So the Campari was described as cold and calculating and living well beyond his means. When he was couped himself in 2014, French troops evacuated him to the Ivory Coast, which of course is what I sa…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 36:18
Barack Obama funded
Blaise Compaoré host_asserted
“Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And let's see, he also provided more than $35 million in security assistance to Campari, even though their security forces were engaging in Operation Gladio-style assassinations of his…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 37:18
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
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
United States funded
Blaise Compaoré host_asserted
“for the other people to accept Sankara because of the fear that the Pan-Africa movement would spread. So after Kampari seized power, the Reagan administration trained and funded the army in an attempt to stabilize his rule.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 52:24
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
Charles Taylor recruited
Blaise Compaoré guest_asserted
“had told him to approach Sankara for help in taking power in Liberia in exchange for a lucrative business opportunity. When Sankara rejected the idea, because they basically were trying to frame him, set him up, Taylor met with a general th…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 54:13
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré succeeded
Blaise Compaoré 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
Blaise Compaoré carried_out_attack
Burkina Faso host_asserted
“Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And let's see, he also provided more than $35 million in security assistance to Campari, even though their security forces were engaging in Operation Gladio-style assassinations of his…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 37:18
Mentions (35)
▶ 22:19
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…
▶ 24:22
No one's allowed to exhume his body to even see how many times he was shot or where he was shot or anything. But many whistleblowers inside the inner circle of the government said that Campari married a woman whose name was Chantal. C-H-A-N…
▶ 25:49
an agent, whether it's an actual agent or asset, to infiltrate this inner circle and knowingly participate and aggravate a situation where they're going to assassinate the nationalist and install another stooge, Campari, who is controlled b…
▶ 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…
▶ 28:43
governor or president. So on, and now this is in 1983. And then later on in April, 2022, they finally have a trial where Kampari goes on trial in absentia and is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But guess where he's at?…
▶ 29:13
He's in the Ivory Coast hanging out with his wife's family. So they won't extradite him. And he's basically been sentenced to life imprisonment. But by that time, he'd already been cued as well. So Kampari's head of security and a military …
▶ 29:45
was also convicted and given a life sentence. Five other people were found guilty of different crimes as part of the assassination plot. And they were all, those five were convicted. Three basically were found not guilty, including a doctor…
▶ 30:43
Let's see. She is quoted as saying the judges have done their jobs and I am satisfied. Of course, I wish the main suspects would be here before the judges. It is not good that people kill other people and stop the process of the development…
▶ 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…
▶ 35:21
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…
▶ 35:46
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…
▶ 36:18
Which, hello, that's exactly what it is. So the Campari was described as cold and calculating and living well beyond his means. When he was couped himself in 2014, French troops evacuated him to the Ivory Coast, which of course is what I sa…
▶ 36:49
A generation after Saqqara's murder, Burkina Faso has been transformed into a U.S. military outpost. It has drone bases in it, and it has been monopolized by the West. In September 2009, Barack Obama posed with Kampari and his wife Chantal …
▶ 37:18
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And let's see, he also provided more than $35 million in security assistance to Campari, even though their security forces were engaging in Operation Gladio-style assassinations of his…
▶ 37:49
Anybody that he suspected as a threat, he would just murder them. AFRICOM, during Campari's rule, was permitted to open a new surveillance base at their capital's international airport. It was a classified program known as Operation Creek S…
▶ 38:19
American Special Forces worked with the chief of Campari's presidential guard, who, by the way, was his assistant in the assassination of Sankara, and went into the field on patrols against Islamic insurgents embedded with local troops. And…
▶ 38:48
Islamic quote-unquote insurgent occurring, which is basically how he controlled his domestic population. In 2018 and 2019, Trump spent 100, not Trump, I mean the Department of Defense, spent $100 million in security cooperation funding for …
▶ 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…
▶ 44:09
France had withdrawn its financial aid prior to the coup in an effort to bankrupt Burkina Faso economy and provoke the tension in the revolutionary leadership and then destroyed wiretap targeting Campari the day after the assassination. So …
▶ 44:38
all of the recordings of the assassination. And then as soon as it's successful, they destroy all the evidence and pretend like it didn't happen. On the day of, or when it's unsuccessful, they destroy it all too. On the day of the coup, Cha…
▶ 49:07
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…
▶ 52:24
for the other people to accept Sankara because of the fear that the Pan-Africa movement would spread. So after Kampari seized power, the Reagan administration trained and funded the army in an attempt to stabilize his rule.…
▶ 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 …
▶ 32:05
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…
▶ 32:34
Still, other than that, Sankara's popular policies weren't felt to have been put into practice by Kapari. The country still retained the capitalist mode of production and a strong French presence, meaning their oligarchs. Not enough had bee…
▶ 33:02
Enduring French logistics and military support, Qatari had long kept the insurgencies in check only for the situation to spiral out of control under Qatari. Before leaving the capital, I had known it to be an incredible safe city. Jihadist …
▶ 35:02
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…