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Ex Burkina Faso PM charged for killing demonstrators
Tiao was charged with “intentional assault, complicity in intentional assault, murder and complicity to murder,” Prosecutor Armand Ouedraogo said.
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Following the incident which occurred in October, 2014, ex-leader, Compaore and several of senior members of his government, including Tiao, were afterwards indicted by the then transitional government for various offences.
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