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Assassination of Thomas Sankara event

also: Sankara's assassination, assassination, Sankara's killing, assassination of Samkara, murder of Sankara, kill Sankara

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Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 44:09 France had withdrawn its financial aid prior to the coup in an effort to bankrupt Burkina Faso economy and provoke the tension in the revolutionary leadership and then destroyed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 …
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 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.…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 53:22 was hunted down like dogs and killed. In 2009, Italian filmmaker Silvestro Montanaro produced a documentary called African Shadows, which implicated the U.S. and French intelligence agencies in Saqqara's killing, along with Campari. The fil…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 56:33 Now, keep in mind, when they say Secret Service, they're not talking Secret Service like our. They're talking actually like their Operation Gladio forces. Prince Yormy Johnson, another one-time Taylor associate, stated that the CIA had infi…
Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso
▶ 57:54 to convey the information to you because they've already kind of sift through. But for example, one of the articles that is linked to this article is about what Sankara left when they assassinated him. He was being paid $450 a week. He had …
Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin
▶ 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 …
Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - U.S. African Drone basing Ghana, Ivory Coast, Benin
▶ 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…