Most eyes were on the alleged – reportedly reluctant – coup leader General Gilbert Diendéré the military pillar of the government of ex-President Blaise Compaoré deposed in a popular uprising in October 2014...
Diendéré led Blaise Compaoré's elite Régiment de sécurité présidentielle (RSP) presidential guard which doubled as a link between the Burkinabè ruling elite and various armed groups in West Africa including Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia Guillaume Soro's Forces nouvelles in Côte d'Ivoire and Sahelian groupings ranging from bands of smugglers and kidnappers to jihadists...
They may serve to warn the current government which is run by two of Blaise Compaoré's former friends – President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and Simon Compaoré now Minister of State at the Presidency – not to take this justice business too far...
Nobody argues any longer that Blaise Compaoré guaranteed law and order and longs for his return (AC Vol 58 No 19 Own goal in Ouaga...