Senior personalities during the regime of Burkina Faso’s deposed president Blaise Compaore are facing charges over the assassinations, attempted assassinations and complicity in assassinations during last year’s protests that ousted Compaore, a civil society source said Wednesday. 
The cases against the former senior officials have been filed by Burkina Faso’s Human and People’s Rights (MBDHP) and the Association of Democratic Organizations and Political Parties.
Those facing charges include Blaise Compaore, his younger brother Francois Compaore, ex-prime minister Adolphe Tiao, ex- territorial administration minister Jerome Bougouma, former chief of staff at the president’s office Gilbert Diendere and head of the army Nabere Honore Traore.
The complaints were filed on Tuesday before competent authorities and institutions involved in the defense of human rights, MBDHP said, reiterating the need for all truth to come out regarding the victims of the popular protest between Oct. 30 to 31, 2014.
MBDHP president Chrysogone Zougmore said five months since the protest, his organization had decided to play its role by pushing for these prosecutions to render justice to victims of last year’s popular protests. Enditem
Source: Xinhua
