Colonel Pierre Ouédraogo, president of the International Thomas Sankara Memorial Committee (CIM-TS), died Thursday morning in Paris following an illness, the AIB learned from concordant sources.
"When a revolutionary falls, he is not dead, he just passes the weapon to others to continue the fight, and from heaven he watches over them", it is in these terms that the vice-president of the CIM-TS , Col Major Daouda Traoré, announced the death of Col Pierre Ouédraogo.
Col Maj Traoré expressed himself through a press release in which he presented, on behalf of the Committee and "the whole family of revolutionaries", his most sincere condolences to the biological family of the deceased, as well as to "his political and ideological family”.
He recalled that Pierre Ouédraogo, retired air force colonel, president of the International Thomas Sankara Memorial Committee, and former Secretary General of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, was a companion in the first hours of the fight by Thomas Sankara, long before 1983.
“He animated the military wing which was in hiding and contributed to building the foundations of the Democratic and Popular Revolution”, reads the press release signed on July 13, 2023 by Col Major Daouda Traoré.
The Thomas Sankara Memorial is a memorial dedicated to Burkinabe President Thomas Sankara and located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It is built on the site of the Conseil de l'Entente where the assassination of Sankara took place. The memorial is built in 2019 and officially opened in 2020.
The Council of Ministers of March 16, 2023 decided to recognize the International Thomas Sankara Memorial Committee as a recognized association of public utility. The related decree was adopted during the same Council of Ministers.
Among other consequences, the Committee may, from this decree, benefit from subsidies or any other advantage granted by the State. He will also have to submit to state control bodies.
Source: Burkina Information Agency