The Burkinabè government has adopted a bill establishing the conditions for granting amnesty to perpetrators, mainly military personnel, of the September 2015 coup.
The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, responsible for relations with the Institutions, Keeper of the Seals, Edasso Rodrigue Bayala, explained Friday during a press conference that the government's desire is to allow the soldiers involved in the acts of failed coup d'état of September 15 and 16, 2015, and who demonstrate “commitment” in the theater of the fight against terrorism, to benefit from the favor of the amnesty pardon.
Bayala maintained that this situation will increase the “commitment and sense of sacrifice” of the authors of the coup in this fight against the terrorist hydra where all forces and intelligence are called upon.
“Systematic confinements are not a good penal policy. The global vision driven by the President of Faso is a justice that is much more restorative than punitive,” the minister underlined.
“This law, which completely erases the sentence, will allow those who meet the conditions to progress in their career,” he added, specifying however that damages will remain the responsibility of those granted amnesty.
On September 15 and 16, 2015, while Burkina Faso was preparing to organize elections to end the transition period begun after the fall of former President Blaise Compaoré, soldiers close to the latter and led by General Gilbert Diendéré tries to overthrow the authorities.
Around fifteen deaths and more than 250 injuries were recorded during these events.
More than 80 people, mainly soldiers and politicians, were prosecuted and convicted in 2019 by the Military Court for acts relating to attacks on state security and other related offenses.
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