• Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    He changed the country’s name from Upper Volta, a legacy of the French colonial era, to Burkina Faso, which means “the land of honest men”.

    He pushed ahead with a socialist agenda of nationalisations and banned female genital mutilation, polygamy and forced marriages.

    This is all it takes to get the French to assassinate you

    • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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      3 years ago

      Don't forget planting 10 million trees to combat deforestation, halving the infant mortality rate, vaccinating over 2 million children , building 100km of railways and much more... :deeper-sadness:

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    “The trial will mark the end to all the lying – we will get a form of truth. But the trial will not be able to restore our dream,”

    :sadness:

  • Vampire [any]
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    3 years ago

    NB: they're being tried in abstentia, and if sentenced, the Burkinabé justice system won't be able to arrest/imprison them.

  • crossfaded_caucus [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    i will never not be devastated at what happened to sankara and burkina faso. france should be obliterated.