The shattered dream of the “orphans of Thomas Sankara”

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They thought of returning to their country to build a new Burkina Faso: sent to study in Cuba in 1986 by the president and “father of the Burkinabè revolution” Thomas Sankara, 600 young people from underprivileged backgrounds, mostly orphans, will be abandoned on their return afterwards. the assassination of their “spiritual father”. Today, they are fighting for redress.