I was digging around in the talk page, very little discussion in any case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Sankara
I looked at the page to see if the criticisms have merit, decided they don't. I did find somethign interesting though.
There is a chart in the "Criticisms" section with the "Freedom in the World" country ratings indicating that Burkina Faso was "not free" during Sankara's presidency. We all know this is just a bullshit metric, etc, etc. What I thought was interesting was, looking at the document that they cite.
http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Country%20Ratings%20and%20Status%2C%201973-2014%20%28FINAL%29.xls
You can see the previous year had the following designations:
Year: 1983-1984
Political Rights: 6
Civil Liberties: 5
Status: Partially Free (PF)
Year: 1984-1985
Political Rights: 7
Civil Liberties: 5
Status: Not Free (NF)
An increase in political rights and no change in civil liberties (by their own metric) makes the country less free.
Yeah, they left out the 'range of Cheetos Mac'n'Cheese flavours available' metric I'm the final paper.
Sankara are the last flaming barbecue pack as a new years treat in 1984, reducing the flavours to two. According to US metrics, this automatically makes a country 'not free'.
I was digging around in the talk page, very little discussion in any case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Sankara
I looked at the page to see if the criticisms have merit, decided they don't. I did find somethign interesting though.
There is a chart in the "Criticisms" section with the "Freedom in the World" country ratings indicating that Burkina Faso was "not free" during Sankara's presidency. We all know this is just a bullshit metric, etc, etc. What I thought was interesting was, looking at the document that they cite. http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Country%20Ratings%20and%20Status%2C%201973-2014%20%28FINAL%29.xls
You can see the previous year had the following designations:
Year: 1983-1984
Political Rights: 6
Civil Liberties: 5
Status: Partially Free (PF)
Year: 1984-1985
Political Rights: 7
Civil Liberties: 5
Status: Not Free (NF)
An increase in political rights and no change in civil liberties (by their own metric) makes the country less free.
Yeah, they left out the 'range of Cheetos Mac'n'Cheese flavours available' metric I'm the final paper.
Sankara are the last flaming barbecue pack as a new years treat in 1984, reducing the flavours to two. According to US metrics, this automatically makes a country 'not free'.