[WSMDiscuss] Verdict Affaire Sankara Communiqué de Presse | Verdict Sankara Case, Press Release

[Brian]

Greetings, folks. Yesterday I posted an article by Kenneth Surin on the trial of Thomas Sankara's killers:https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2/ <https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2/>

Pat Harewood reminds me: "It's really unfortunate that this article does not even mention the coordinating role of the International Campaign of Justice for Sankara, created by the Group for Research and Initiative on the Liberation of Africa - a grassroots and independent Pan-africanist organization - grila.com <http://grila.com/>.  Activists like Aziz Fall spent 25 years on this case along with lawyers like the now deceased Charles Roach, Farama Prosper, Benwende Sankara ( no relation), Olivier Badolo and many others from Burkina Faso, France and Canada. This was truly an example of how international anti-imperialist solidarity works."

Thanks, Pat. An important acknowlegement indeed! See below the Communiqué from La Campagne Internationale Justice pour Sankara CIJS <https://cijs-icjs.net/fr/history-of-the-icsj/>, 

~ Brian

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> From: Patricia Harewood 
> Subject: Fw: Verdict Affaire Sankara Communiqué de Presse | Verdict Sankara Case, Press Release
> Date: 12 April 2022 at 11:25:55 pm GMT-4
> To: Brian Murphy <brian at radicalroad.com>
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> From: aziz salmone Fall <azizsalmonefall at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Verdict Affaire Sankara Communiqué de Presse | Verdict Sankara Case, Press Release
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> (English Follows)
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> Communiqué de la CIJS suivi de la déclaration liminaire à la
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> CONFERENCE DE PRESSE DES AVOCATS DE LA FAMILLE
> DU PRESIDENT THOMAS SANKARA SUITE AU DELIBERE RENDU
> LE 6 AVRIL 2022 PAR LA CHAMBRE DE JUGEMENT
> DU TRIBUNAL MILITAIRE DE OUAGADOUGOU
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> OUAGADOUGOU, LE 7 AVRIL 2022
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> La Campagne Internationale Justice pour Sankara CIJS <https://cijs-icjs.net/fr/history-of-the-icsj/>,  coordonnée depuis 1997 par le GRILA <https://grila.org/index_grila.php?gri=acc&lang=fr> (Groupe de Recherche et d’Initiative pour la Libération de l’Afrique) prend acte de la décision prononcée par l’honorable Juge Urbain Meda du tribunal militaire de Ouagadougou, ce 6 avril 2022. Ce jugement est le premier du genre dans l’histoire du continent, et marque d’ailleurs une jurisprudence dans l’histoire du droit. Durant la majeure partie de ces 25 années <https://cijs-icjs.net/fr/history-of-the-icsj/>, les avocat-es de la CIJS ont essayé de faire entendre le droit contre l’État partie, et ensuite devant une cour du tribunal militaire. 
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> Lire la suite <https://cijs-icjs.net/fr/2022/04/07/icjs-press-release-press-conference-verdict/>
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> ICJS press release followed by the opening statement to the
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> PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE LAWYERS OF THE FAMILY OF PRESIDENT THOMAS SANKARA
> FOLLOWING THE JUDGEMENT OF
> APRIL 6, 2022 BY THE JUDGEMENT CHAMBER
> OF THE MILITARY COURT OF OUAGADOUGOU
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> OUAGADOUGOU, 07 APRIL 2022
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> The International Campaign Justice for Sankara (ICJS) <https://cijs-icjs.net/>, coordinated since 1997 by GRILA <https://grila.org/index_grila.php?gri=acc&lang=en> (Research and Initiative Group for the Liberation of Africa), takes note of the decision pronounced by the Honourable Judge Urbain Meda of the Military Court of Ouagadougou, on 6 April 2022. This judgment is the first of its kind in the history of the continent, and marks a precedent in the history of law. For most of the past 25 years, ICJS <https://cijs-icjs.net/cijs-key-dates-en/> lawyers have been trying to get the law heard against the state, and then before a military court. They have always stood up against impunity. ICJS is grateful for all the pan-African and international mobilisation that has assisted it over the past 25 years. It salutes the memory of the victims and of all those who paid with their lives or gave their blood to bring this historic day to pass.
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> Read <https://cijs-icjs.net/2022/04/07/icjs-press-release-press-conference-verdict/>
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