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Mr Compaor\u00e9 has lived in exile in neighbouring Ivory Coast since 2014 when he was ousted in a popular uprising after 27 years in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI ask the people of Burkina Faso to forgive me for all the acts I committed during my term of office, especially to the family of my brother and friend Thomas Isidore No\u00ebl Sankara,\u201d Mr Compaor\u00e9 said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI take responsibility and deplore, from the bottom of my heart, all the sufferings and dramas experienced by all the victims during my mandates at the head of the country and ask their families to forgive me. I hope that we can move forward from now on to rebuild our common destiny on the land of our ancestors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The message was delivered to military ruler Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who took power in a coup in January, by an Ivorian delegation accompanied by the former president\u2019s daughter Djamila Compaor\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this month, Lt-Col Damiba invited Mr Compaor\u00e9 to Burkina Faso to attend a reconciliation summit of ex-presidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This message, in which Mr Compaor\u00e9 also deplored the terror attacks the country regularly faces while calling on Burkinab\u00e8s to unite to end their quarrels, is clearly the fruit of such reconciliation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sankara, known by some as \u201cAfrica\u2019s Che Guevara\u201d, remains a hero for many across Africa because of his anti-imperialist stance and austere lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Marxist revolutionary who seized power aged 33 campaigned against corruption and oversaw huge increases in education and health spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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