The government of Burkina Faso has ordered
the exhumation of the remains of Thomas
Sankara, the former president who was killed in
a 1987 coup.
The move means the remains can be formally
identified - a long-standing demand of Mr Sankara's
supporters, who wanted proof that the remains
were his.
Mr Sankara - seen as Africa's Che Guevara - was
hastily buried in a coup led by his successor, Blaise
Compaore.
Mr Compaore quit the presidency amid massive
street protests last October.
While he was in office, a Burkina Faso court blocked
a request by Mr Sankara's family for his remains to
be exhumed.
Mr Compaore has always denied being involved in
the ex-leader's killing, insisting that the "facts are
known" and he has "nothing to hide".
Mr Sankara remains popular in many parts of Africa
The new government in Burkina Faso, headed by
Michel Kafando, said Mr Sankara's family would be
given the means to help identify the corpse,
according to the AFP news agency.
Miriam Sankara, the former leader's widow, told the
BBC French service the family had not asked for the
government's help - and had yet to be officially
contacted.
"We, the family... cannot exhume the corpse," she
said. "We want the judiciary to do it.
"And if they do it, it should be in the context of a
judicial process that we have always demanded, in
the context of finding out the truth and the helping
in the search for President Sankara's murderers. "
Mr Sankara, a Marxist revolutionary, became
president in 1983 after an internal power struggle.
He led his country for four years until his death at
the age of 37.

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