In 2015, a group of soldiers from the former presidential security regiment attempted to put an end to the transition underway after the fall of Blaise Compaoré. Following opposition from part of the army and the population, this coup failed and several officers, including generals Gilbert Dienderé and Djibril Basolé, were sentenced to prison terms.
The people affected by the amnesty will be designated in a future decree. According to the Minister of Justice, one of the conditions will be to “demonstrate the desire and interest to be deployed in the theater of operations as part of the reconquest of the territory”. The minister added that this decision is not, however, a “questioning of the achievements of the 2014 insurrection” which put an end to the regime of Blaise Compaoré.
A first trial took place in September 2019, the appeal judgments of which are still awaited. For the minister, the amnesty law could make it possible to compensate for the slowness of justice and unblock the situation.
A Burkinabé jurist considers that this law is indeed a desire to rehabilitate soldiers who are in prison. “This amounts to endorsing the coup d’état, because they will be exonerated, rehabilitated and even compensated,” regrets the man of law. While waiting to know the exact content of this amnesty bill, one of the lawyers for the victims of the failed coup of 2015 says he does not understand the “deep motivations” surrounding this measure.
World
Related News :