"War criminal" Blaise Compaore faces revolt in Burkina Faso

Editor's Monday Morning Brew

There is no conflict in West Africa and indeed Africa, that Blaise Compaore has no knowledge of. Having murdered his best friend and comrade-in-arms, Thomas Sankara in a bloody coup in 1987, he (Blaise Compaore) and Charles Taylor, with the support of their godfather in Libya, Muammar Gaddafi unleashed a reign of terror on the African continent.

One must also not forget Compaore's support of the late Jonas Savimbi (a "good friend" of the Heritage Foundation) in the brutal Angolan civil war.

Now, Blaise Compaore, a honorary member of the Raoul Wallenberg foundation (go figure) is under siege as the same guns he has unleashed on the people of West Africa (Ivory Coast recently through the French puppet Alassane Quattara), are now set to be turned against him.

It is impossible to see how Blaise Compaore will eventually survive, although he may try to hold on as much as possible, much like his godfather in the art of butchery, Muammar Gaddafi.

Here (below) are video footage, courtesy of France 24, on the mutiny in the Burkinabe military and the resulting violence as Blaise Compaore (who should be on trial along with Charles Taylor at the Hague) scrambles to hold on to power.