They were both assassinated for the love of Africa and putting people's interests first!
Thomas Sankara was assassinated in a coup plot orchestrated by France on October 15, 1987.
Muammar Gaddafi, assassinated during Libyan civil war orche.strate.d by the U..S..A , France and 40+ unjust countries in October 20, 2011.
Reasons why Sankara was assassinated:
■ He rejected the idea of foreign aid, saying that "he who feeds you, controls you"
■ In 1987 during OAU summit, he gave speech on debts African countries owed the West and its effect on us.
■ He accused the West of double standards that militate against Africa's growth with debt.
■ Thomas Sankara during his speech delivered at the OAU, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1987 on Africa's debt crisis. He went ahead to predict his own assassination, he told Africans to stop buying weapons so we can concentrate on our own development!
■ Thomas Sankara told Africans to stop importing what they can produce, saying “There's no single thread on me from Europe or America ”.
■ The moving speech, which he delivered without a script, had such an effect that the text was published in Paris, France in February 1989 in the magazine Coumbite.
■ He was assassinated 3 months later in a coup plot orchestrated by France on October 15th, 1987.
The Reasons why Gaddafi was assassinated:-
■ Gaddafi nationalized Libyan oil
■ He insisted that our sovereign African countries work to achieve the United States Of Africa
■ He suggested a single military force, a single currency and a single passport for Africans to move freely around Africa.
■ He lambasted the United Nations (UN) Security Council during a summit in 2009, he also accused the UN of being biased.
■ He denounced the UN permanent setup of Security Council, which he says encourages the treatment of other countries as “Second-class Citizens”.
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