Burkina Faso Charges General Who Led Failed Coup
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
OCT. 7, 2015
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The leader of last month’s failed coup in Burkina Faso has been charged with high treason, murder, “attacking the security of the state” and “colluding with foreign forces to destabilize internal security,” officials said Wednesday.
The coup leader, Gen. Gilbert Diendéré, led an uprising of the Presidential Security Regiment, the creation of Blaise Compaoré, who was the president for 27 years until mass protests ousted him from power last year.
Djibril Bassolé, a former foreign minister, faces the same charges as General Diendéré. Two other politicians, Léonce Koné and Hermann Yaméogo, have been detained on suspicion of having been involved in the coup, as have several officers from the regiment.
The coup, which began on Sept. 16, killed 14 people and injured 251 others, according to an accounting by the prime minister, Lt. Col. Isaac Zida, who was briefly overthrown, along with the interim president, Michel Kafando. After being restored to power, they ordered the abolition of the regiment.
OCT. 7, 2015
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — The leader of last month’s failed coup in Burkina Faso has been charged with high treason, murder, “attacking the security of the state” and “colluding with foreign forces to destabilize internal security,” officials said Wednesday.
The coup leader, Gen. Gilbert Diendéré, led an uprising of the Presidential Security Regiment, the creation of Blaise Compaoré, who was the president for 27 years until mass protests ousted him from power last year.
Djibril Bassolé, a former foreign minister, faces the same charges as General Diendéré. Two other politicians, Léonce Koné and Hermann Yaméogo, have been detained on suspicion of having been involved in the coup, as have several officers from the regiment.
The coup, which began on Sept. 16, killed 14 people and injured 251 others, according to an accounting by the prime minister, Lt. Col. Isaac Zida, who was briefly overthrown, along with the interim president, Michel Kafando. After being restored to power, they ordered the abolition of the regiment.
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