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		</div><p>Burkina Faso’s military court has issued an international arrest warrant for former president Blaise Compaore for the assassination of the country’s ex-revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.</p>
<p>Mr Sankara was killed with 12 supporters during a 1987 coup that brought Compaore to power.</p>
<p>An investigation into Mr Sankara’s death was reopened after Compaore was ousted in October last year in a popular uprising.</p>
<p>Compaore, who was in power for 27 years in the West African nation, has denied involvement in Mr Sankara’s killing and now lives in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast.</p>
<p>Remains believed to be those of Mr Sankara were exhumed earlier this year from a cemetery on the edge of the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, and are being examined.</p>
<p>“I can confirm the warrant of arrest,” said military tribunal director Colonel Sita Sangare, adding he could not give more details.</p>
<p>Compaore&#8217;s ally, General Gilbert Diendere, was charged earlier this month with complicity in Mr Sankara’s killing.</p>
<p>Diendre is already in jail, arrested by authorities after taking power for a week in September during a short-lived coup that overthrew the country’s transitional government.</p>
<p>The presidential guard loyal to Compaore staged the week-long coup and has since been disbanded. Several members have also been arrested for Mr Sankara’s killing.</p>
<p>“As a family member, I am glad with the step forward made in the case,” said Mousbila Sankara, a cousin of the late leader.</p>
<p>“(But) I know it will be difficult to have the Ivorians agree to arrest Compaore and send him back home.”</p>
<p>Burkina Faso held delayed national elections on November 29 that saw Roch Marc Christian Kabore become the West African country’s second elected civilian president since independence from France in 1960.</p>
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