According to Ouédraogo, radical Captain Thomas Sankara was supposed to take power but withdrew at the last minute, leading other officers to choose him to assume the presidency due to his senior rank though, in his words, "against my will". He was a compromise choice between the left-wing radicals and conservatives on the CSP. Two days later the council elected Major Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo as president. The soldiers then formed the Conseil de Salut du Peuple (CSP), a 120-strong governing body consisting of officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates. On 7 November 1982 the conservative and left-wing factions united under conservative Colonel Gabriel Somé Yorian launched a coup which ousted Zerbo. He installed a mixed military-civilian regime which over time marginalised both the older, conservative senior officers and younger, radical left-wing junior officers in the army. In 1980 Colonel Saye Zerbo took control of the Republic of Upper Volta in a coup. Sankara became the new President of Upper Volta and created the Conseil National de la Revolution (CNR), a new governing body consisting mostly of populist junior officers.īackground 1982 coup and the CSP Sankara attempted to broker a political compromise with Ouédraogo, but Compaoré's troops seized the city before this was done and captured Ouédraogo. Tensions continued to increase until 4 August when Compaoré launched a coup, leading 250 paratroopers in a march on the capital, Ouagadougou. Sankara was eventually released while one officer, Compaoré, began to organise military resistance to the government. This move sparked discontent among Sankara's supporters. On 16 May he purged his government of pro-Libyan and anti-French elements, disbanded the CSP, and had Sankara and several other important officials arrested. As his tenure progressed, Ouédraogo found himself unable to reconcile the conservative and radical factions of the CSP, whose disagreements were leading to a political stalemate. The CSP chose Sankara as Prime Minister of Upper Volta in January 1983. Ouédraogo had been brought to power in a 1982 coup with the Conseil de Salut du Peuple (CSP), a body composed of military officials of different ideological backgrounds. It was carried out by radical elements of the army led by Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré, against the regime of Major Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo. On 4 August 1983 a coup d'état was launched in the Republic of Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) in an event sometimes referred to as the August revolution ( French: Révolution d'août) or Burkinabé revolution. Thomas Sankara installed as the President of Upper Volta.
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