A letter was filed Monday, August 15 with the prosecutor of Burkina Faso to denounce the arson of the premises of the National Assembly during the 2014 insurrection which put an end to the regime of Blaise Compaoré. This letter, signed by Léonce Koné, a former minister of the ousted president, accuses certain members of the MPP, the People’s Movement for the Progress of ex-president Kaboré, of having claimed responsibility for the ransacking of the National Assembly in declarations public in 2016.
Léonce Koné himself only recently became aware of it. With this letter, he hopes for the opening of an investigation and assures that his approach does not intend to harm national reconciliation, on the contrary.
“ Proponents of the regime that was launched at the beginning of the year claimed that they aspired to reconciliation through a triptych: “truth, justice, reconciliation”. And so these facts are facts of political violence, like what they also accuse the regime of Blaise Compaoré, and therefore they must be elucidated, they must give rise to serious investigations, and then, they must be judged. , explains Léonce Koné, joined by Gaelle Laleix of RFI’s Africa service.
“ Before we reach the reconciliation phase, it’s part of a whole. There were perpetrators of violence not only in one camp, there were in Burkina in several political camps, and if we want to move towards reconciliation on the basis of truth on all these facts, it must elucidate them all and treat them in the same way. »