I'd never heard of Sankara before this site (because of course I haven't) and he just sounds absolutely incredible. All the stuff he was doing seems a lot like what the IMF and World Bank pretend to want. Oxfam opposed Sankara as well. Sankara was assassinated and ousted by a coup, that included, shockingly, the United States. This really makes me feel like a tankie right now. It seems you have to sacrifice a great deal in your country just to prevent counterrevolutions. That's why communist militias are so large.