The trial of former Burkinabe President Blaise Compaoré and 13 others jointly accused of the 1987 assassination of Captain Thomas Sankara will start on October 11 this year.
The trial will be conducted in public. This was made known by military prosecutors in Burkina Faso’s capital Ougadougou.
Mr Compaoré was forced into exile in 2014 after he attempted to change the law to extend his rule.
He currently lives in Cote d’Ivoire and may be tried in absentia. A warrant for his arrest was issued in 2015.
In April, a Burkina Faso military tribunal indicted him for “attack on state security, complicity in murder and concealment of corpses”.
Charges he has always denied.
