[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The trial of soldiers implicated in a mutiny that rocked the regime of Burkina Faso...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and may be in the process of being chased out now...
's President Blaise Compaore last year opened Tuesday in Ouagadougou, with verdicts handed down in a handful of cases.
In all, 346 people who are currently in detention were due to go to court in a series of trials.
They are soldiers, two-thirds of whom have been dismissed from the army, with the exception of about 15 civilians.
According to a source close to the military tribunal, which began by trying five of the accused, the trials will last until the end of the "first quarter of 2013."
Between March and June last year, almost all army barracks mutinied, including that of the presidential guard, as civilians demonstrated in the streets.
The events shook the regime more than any other since Compaore came to power in a military coup in 1987.