Editing History of Burkina Faso (section)

===Rule of Blaise Compaoré===
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| symbol_type            = Coat of Arms (1997 - 2014)
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| capital                = [[Ouagadougou]]
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| national_anthem        = [[Ditanyè|Une Suele Nuit / Ditanyè]]<br />({{Langx|en|"One Single Night / Hymn to Victory"}})
| government_type        = [[Unitary state|Unitary]] [[Dominant-party system|dominant-party]] [[republic]] under a [[dictatorship]]
| leader1                = [[Blaise Compaoré]]
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| title_leader           = [[List of heads of state of Burkina Faso|President]]
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| year_representative1   = 1992–1994 (first)
| representative1        = [[Youssouf Ouédraogo]]
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| representative2        = [[Luc-Adolphe Tiao]] 
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| event_start            = 1987 Coup d'état
| date_start             = 15 October
| year_start             = 1987
| event_end              = [[2014 Burkina Faso uprising]]
| date_end               = 28 October - 3 November
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[[Image:Pionniers de la révolution.jpg|thumb|left|Children of the 1983–1987 revolution]]
The CDRs, which were formed as popular mass organizations, deteriorated in some areas into gangs of armed thugs and clashed with several trade unions. Tensions over the repressive tactics of the government and its overall direction mounted steadily. On October 15, 1987, Sankara was [[assassination|assassinated]] in a coup which brought Captain [[Blaise Compaoré]] to power.
[[File:Blaise Compaoré.jpeg|thumb|Blaise Compaoré]]

Compaoré, Captain [[Henri Zongo]], and Major Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lengani formed the [[Popular Front (Burkina Faso)|Popular Front (FP)]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wiafe-Amoako |first=Francis Wiafe |title=Africa 2015-2016 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |year=2015 |isbn=9781475818697 |pages=75}}</ref> which pledged to continue and pursue the goals of the revolution and to "rectify" Sankara's "deviations" from the original aims.<ref name=":0" /> The new government, in aims of bourgeois support, tacitly moderated many of Sankara's policies. As part of a much-discussed political "opening" process, several political organizations, three of them non-Marxist, were accepted under an umbrella political organization created in June 1989 by the FP.

Some members of the leftist [[Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement|Organisation pour la Démocratie Populaire/Mouvement du Travail]] (ODP/MT) were against the admission of non-Marxist groups in the front. On September 18, 1989, while Compaoré was returning from a two-week trip to Asia, Lengani and Zongo were accused of [[1989 Burkinabé coup d'état attempt|plotting]] to overthrow the Popular Front. They were arrested and summarily executed the same night. Compaoré reorganized the government, appointed several new ministers, and assumed the portfolio of Minister of Defense and Security. On December 23, 1989, a presidential security detail arrested about 30 civilians and military personnel accused of plotting a coup in collaboration with the Burkinabe external opposition.

Burkina Faso adopted a new [[Constitution of Burkina Faso|constitution]] on June 2, 1991.

In 2005, Compaoré elected to his third term. In November 2010, President Compaoré was re–elected for a fourth straight term. He won 80.2% of the vote, while [[Hama Arba Diallo]] came a distant second with 8.2%.

In February 2011, the death of a schoolboy provoked an uprising in the entire country, lasting through April 2011, which was coupled with a military mutiny and with a strike of the magistrates. See {{Interlanguage link|2011 Burkina Faso uprising|fr|3=Révolte burkinabée|vertical-align=sup}}.