Blaise Compaoré: Difference between revisions

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}}'''Blaise Compaoré''' (born 3 February 1951) is a Burkinabé dictator who was president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He was a top associate of President [[Thomas Sankara]] during the 1980s. In October 1987, he led a ''coup d'état'' during which Thomas Sankara was killed.

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'''Blaise Compaoré''' (born 3 February 1951) is a Burkinabé dictator who was president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He was a top associate of President [[Thomas Sankara]] during the 1980s. In October 1987, he led a ''coup d'état'' during which Thomas Sankara was killed.

==Biography==

Compaoré was born into a family of the Mossi ethnic group, one of the dominant ethnic groups in Upper Volta, and was raised in the town of Ziniaré, near Ouagadougou. He attended military college in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and received paracommando training in Rabat, Morocco.

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-}}'''Blaise Compaoré'''  (born 3 February 1951) is a Burkinabé dictator who was president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He was a top associate of President [[Thomas Sankara]] during the 1980s. In October 1987, he led a ''coup d'état'' during which Thomas Sankara was killed.
+}}{{Quote|History will tell us if I was right.|Blaise Compaoré}}
+'''Blaise Compaoré'''  (born 3 February 1951) is a Burkinabé dictator who was president of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014. He was a top associate of President [[Thomas Sankara]] during the 1980s. In October 1987, he led a ''coup d'état'' during which Thomas Sankara was killed.
 ==Biography==
 Compaoré was born into a family of the Mossi ethnic group, one of the dominant ethnic groups in Upper Volta, and was raised in the town of Ziniaré, near Ouagadougou. He attended military college in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and received paracommando training in Rabat, Morocco.