In the early morning of August 4, 1983, under the cover of a heavy rain, 300 Upper Walter paratroopers wearing leopard camouflage rushed forward to Walter’s capital Ouagadougou. Their purpose was not to participate in the military parade. Instead, go to the capital to engage in a coup. This kind of thing is commonplace in the entire African continent. The people are no longer happy to see it. Anyway, it is a military government. Changing the president is just a change of king. Fortunately, if you are unlucky enough to match such as Bokassa, Mobutu, Massier and others, it can only be resigned.
But this time the people who went to Walter won the lottery, because the leader of this group to initiate the coup was named Thomas Sankara. This is a person who has broken away from low-level tastes.
Thomas Sankara was born in a military home in Upper Walter in December 1949. His father is from the Boer, who is known for his bravery, and his mother is from , who is known for his fighting skills. Guaranteed, the matched Sankara will naturally not be too bad. In 1960, Upper Walter became independent from France. This year Sankara was under 11 years old, but at this time he had a strong patriotism. Once a French student tore off the flag of on Walter at school, and was extremely angry. Sankara led his friends up to be violent against the French students, and the consequence was that his father was imprisoned because the national government at that time was just a puppet of the French.
Sankara, who graduated from high school in 1966, began his military career. Due to his outstanding performance, Sankara moved to many military schools in the country. In 1970, Sankara walked out of the country for the first time and came to a country that is richer than Walter, Africa The first largest island country Madagascar Studying abroad, the decadent and incompetent Qing government can still send students to study in Europe and the United States. No matter how much money, you can go to Japan. If you can come to study in this country with less attention than a movie, you can see Walter It's really asking Huazi to wear filial piety-one is poor and the other is white.
at the Madagascar Military Academy,Sankara received not only military officer training but also agricultural science, political science, economics and other disciplines. Anyway, he was able to learn everything that he could learn. It can be seen that it is not easy to send a person to Walter, and he must be trained to be an all-rounder. It was also here that he began to read a lot of the works of Marx and Lenin, and witnessed the popular uprising in Madagascar and the downfall of the comprador government, which gave Sankara a whole new life.
After returning to China, Sankara was awarded the rank of lieutenant. After receiving the advanced military concepts of Madagascar, he was sent to train new soldiers. He often said in training: "A soldier who is not patriotic is a soldier. A potential criminal". In 1974, Sankara led his paratroopers to defeat the Mali army. He was deeply supported by men, women and children in the country, which laid the foundation for later politics. In 1976, he was promoted to captain and served as commander of the Pau paratroopers. In the same year, he was sent to Morocco for intensive military training. Here, 27-year-old Sankara met Bryce Compaore, two sports lovers, The young man of music has become a good friend, Compaore has accompanied Sankara throughout his life, but Sankara failed to do so.
The 30-year-old Sankara in 1981 was valued by President Zebo, who had just launched a military coup, because of his highly personalized speech and outstanding military literacy. This is probably the most correct thing the Zebo government has done. In the spirit of employing people to the best of his ability, Sankara did not take charge of the army but took over the news media on Walter. In Zebo’s opinion, he sent Sankara to take charge of a country’s tongue. He should know what he meant, but San Carla obviously understood too much. He used his position to report on the corruption of the Zebo government on the news and television, and publicly asked the government to give people a voice. Zebo saw that Walter was about to change the sky. Sangkara was dismissed from all posts and exiled to a desert barracks. As a man who had witnessed the revolution, Sangkara was determined to launch a coup.
On November 7, 1982, he joined forces with Major Vedrao, and led the next group of brothers, dressed in football player clothes, hid submachine guns in their duffel bags and secretly sneaked into the capital and rushed into the presidential palace. coup,There was almost no resistance to this coup, because everyone has long been used to it. After the successful coup, Vidrao became president and Sankara became prime minister. Vidrao wanted to be a good comprador and earn the money, but Sankara wanted to do something. He denounced French colonialism. , On the one hand and Gaddafi, he also got acquainted with Castro at the meeting of heads of state of the non-aligned countries. Due to political conflicts, Sankara, who had been prime minister for less than half a year, was imprisoned by Vidrao. However, because Sankara held military power, Vidrao quickly released Sankara after weighing the pros and cons under the pressure of the army. , So the scene in the first paragraph of the article was staged on August 4, 1983, Sankara’s good brother Compaore led the Upper Walter paratroopers in a coup.
For the officials of Upper Walter, the coup d’état is the same as the Chinese New Year, which will be held once a year. The raising of hands and surrender has become a standardized process for every official to learn before taking office. It went well, but the people didn’t respond. The successful coup Sankara announced a national holiday. After a day’s rest, people who went to Walter found that their country name had changed. They were no longer from Walter, but called Burkina Faso It means "the country of upright men and gentlemen". This is the first change Sankara gave to his motherland. He hoped that his country would become upright and strong, instead of using the name of a river, just like a person's name changed from Zhang San to With Zhang Sanfeng, his temperament has changed.
Sankara made serving the people as the government's motto in his policy agenda. This is definitely a shining star on the African continent where many military government leaders may not even know what the policy program is.
Under the leadership of Sankara, farmers in Burkina Faso divided the fields into chiefs, converted part of the cotton that the landlords used to grow cash crops into edible food crops, and increased the purchase price of food. After two years of hard work The Burkina Faso people’s food production has increased substantially and they have achieved food self-sufficiency. For the first time, the famine has moved away from this country. This was an unprecedented feat in Africa at that time. In Africa, where the disease is raging, Sankara vaccinated 2.5 million people within a week; he encouraged education, lowered tuition fees, and hoped that more children would be enrolled in school; in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation,Sankara leads by example and supports domestic products, requiring government officials to wear clothes made of domestic cotton to stimulate domestic demand; he allows soldiers and government officials to go to the countryside to experience the hard life of farmers, and he stipulates that government officials cannot take first-class airplanes on business trips. He also called on male compatriots across the country to enter the vegetable market, cook a meal for his wife, abolish polygamy, and abolish circumcision. Burkina Faso is thriving under his leadership.
Facing the unreasonable social phenomenon in society, he angrily pointed out; “The children of officials can go to Paris for free treatment if they have a cold, but the farmers buy even a bottle of the most common medicine. I can’t afford it,” he ordered the establishment of a people’s court to allow people to try corrupt officials. This was caused by Burkina’s law, where officials must be corrupt.
Because Sankara pursues non-alignment, anti-imperial, anti-colonial and anti-feudalism, and repeatedly denounced French colonialism at world conferences, he has stated that he will never accept conditional aid and has also united with many small countries to collectively not repay foreign debts. If you can be lazy, you can be lazy. Sankara clearly distinguishes them from neighboring countries. Those who tend to socialism are brothers, and the rest are lackeys of capitalism. This radical foreign policy has made Sankara almost lost all external support. The Soviet Union, the only hopeful older brother, is also powerless, because this country is of no strategic significance to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has also lost Brezh Nev was brilliant and slammed on the accelerator on the downhill.
During the visit of French President Mitterrand to Burkina Faso, Mitterrand greeted Mitterrand on both sides of the road instead of welcoming, but overthrowing imperialism. At the welcome dinner, Sankara had been blaming France for Burkina. Faso brought about the grave disaster, and conducted "friendly exchanges" with Mitterrand. Afterwards, Mitterrand said: Sankara is a vibrant head of state, surrounded by a group of young people, Full of new thoughts, he is a person who makes people uneasy and does not let people sleep peacefully. Obviously there is something in the words.
Because Sankara’s style is extremely simple, he sold government-issued Mercedes-Benz cars and insisted on cycling to work. Later, because Africa was really unsafe, he finally compromised and replaced it with an old Renault; he dismantled the office of the president. air conditioner,Because this country is extremely short of electricity; he took the initiative to cut his salary from $3,000 to $450. All he has done is to make the country's money be used in the most critical places. He hopes that the officials around him can also solve the problems of more people's lives by lowering their own standards of life like him.
In order to solve the financial difficulties, civil servants began to drastically cut their salaries, two ministers could only share a car, cut housing subsidies for soldiers, and directly expelled those who disapproved. This kind of hard-line approach has aroused the opposition of many old comrades in arms. The biggest opponent is his friend Compaore. He feels that everything Sankara has done is too radical. After their hard-won political power, their material life is better than that. It was harder before. And Sankara was aware of Compaore's opposition, but he still gave absolute trust to this friend.
In 1987, Sankara said in a conversation with an official of the United Nations: Guevara died at the age of 39, can I live to 39 like him? He was 38 years old this year. Captain Kabore of the Presidential Guard asked Sankara to approve the capture of Compaore, but Sankara said: No, I cannot betray friendship. At this time, Sankara is like a racer. He has cliffs on both sides and someone is chasing behind him, so he knows that he will drive up all the way up, as long as he crosses the finish line, he believes that everyone will see hope.
On October 14, 1987, Sankara finally realized that the crisis was in sight. Taking advantage of Compaore's absence from the cabinet meeting, he hurriedly announced the establishment of an "intervention force" under his own control. In fact, this unit was already equipped with weapons before this meeting. At the cabinet meeting, Ernest said straightforwardly: "We have been dealing with the enemy for a long time, and now it is time to deal with our friends."
But after all, it was too late. A day later, Sankara was talking to several internal affairs. When the ministers were meeting, Compaore’s troops rushed into the presidential palace. Sankara calmly said to the meeting people: I know what they want. After speaking, he raised his hands and walked out. Before he could say a word, Sankara was beaten beyond recognition by the bullet after a burst of gunshots. He might not believe that Compaore would kill him until he died.
With the support of France, Compaore took over the power steadily,He began to rule Burkina Faso for 27 years, and Sankara’s father died, and it is not believed that Compaore killed his son.
Sankara is a loyal patriot, an excellent soldier, not a politician. He failed to correctly understand the international political situation before the end of the Cold War, and he was not good at engaging in domestic political struggles. There is no strong support on the outside and no reliance on the inside. He is destined to be a tragic hero who echoes Allende's things. He is a practitioner of the advanced model and a practitioner of the backward model.
Although Sankara failed, he opened up the minds of Burkina Faso and changed the temperament of a country.
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