00:00Here, solennellement, in the name of the people,
00:02we require the pure and simple démission of the President Blaise Compaor.
00:13It's not for Blaise Compaoré!
00:14Here, he has killed his monarchy!
00:16We are here today!
00:17It's not for you!
00:18It's not for you!
00:19We sent Vice News Correspondent Pierre Mareczko to Burkina Faso
00:33during a huge demonstration against the regime of President Blaise Compaoré.
00:38We quickly found ourselves in the middle of a revolution
00:42that led to the overthrow of Compaoré, who had been in power for 27 years.
00:49In the last month, the Place de la Nation,
00:51which has been renamed Place de la Révolution
00:53since the start of the former President Blaise Compaoré.
00:55Today, on this place, the Burkin Abbey Opposition
00:58organizes a big meeting to denounce the confiscation of power by the army,
01:02since yesterday, Colonel Zida, a military guard,
01:06was self-proclaimed as a state leader.
01:08Half of Burkina Faso's 17 million inhabitants live on less than a dollar a day.
01:14This former French colony in West Africa has few natural resources,
01:18no oil, and no access to the sea.
01:21For decades, it's been surviving only thanks to international aid from the IMF and the World Bank.
01:28In 1987, Blaise Compaoré came to power after a coup that led to the assassination of President Thomas Sankara,
01:35a former soldier and Marxist revolutionary, often called the African Che Guevara.
01:41Ever since, Blaise Compaoré has been re-elected with a suspiciously high percentage of the vote.
01:48Compaoré has been likened to some of the worst dictators on the continent.
01:53It's 7h30 at Ouagadougou.
01:56We are in the city center, on the axis that leads to the National Assembly.
02:00It was completely safe by the military and police.
02:03Behind me, you can see the blind cars and a pickup pickup from a gunfire.
02:09And in front of me, the National Police who released the cannon.
02:14The protesters are a little further, we hear the klaxons, the sifflets.
02:18We also heard some explosions.
02:30Okay, so now, the protesters are on the side of the streets that lead to the National Assembly.
02:36In fact, all the perpendiculars of the Grand Avenue, on which I was earlier,
02:40are on the side of the protesters, and the CRS are on the pick-up
02:44and the protesters are on the side of the protesters.
02:48On October 30, Compaoré's deputies prepared to pass a law
02:52that would theoretically enable him to stay in power for life.
02:56For the Burkinaabe, the idea of seeing Blaise Compaoré run for a fifth term was a step too far.
03:02Well, you guys, it's not your Totally Sportaboué!
03:04Oh, there's the Here!
03:05I seni club the Yankei!
03:06Dort follow!
03:07We hear that!
03:08Let's земüyor, fleeing!
03:10強烈!
03:12So, boys!
03:13There's a desert !
03:14Come on!
03:23hide!
03:24I'm at I'm serious!
03:25I don't know what the spaghetti line exists.
03:26Okay…
03:27Okay.
03:28Come on, dude.
03:44All right, guys!
03:45Come on!
03:46Come on!
03:47Come on!
03:48Come on!
03:49Come on!
03:50Come on!
03:51Come on!
03:52Come on!
03:58Come on!
03:59Come on!
04:005 minutes!
04:015 minutes!
04:025 minutes!
04:035 minutes!
04:045 minutes!
04:13On vient de voir une charge des CRS qui était particulièrement violente.
04:18On a pris pas mal de lacrymaux.
04:20Les manifestants ont bien reculé.
04:22Ils sont en train de caillasser là un peu plus loin.
04:24On voit des pierres qui tombent.
04:28C'est pas normal.
04:29C'est le CRS, c'est le Tsubalais.
04:30C'est le Tsubalais.
04:31C'est le Tsubalais.
04:32On est toujours au siège du chef de file de l'opposition burkinabé.
04:35D'après les informations qu'on a eues, les manifestants sont rentrés dans l'Assemblée
04:52Nationale.
04:53Il semblerait aussi que certains députés soient blessés.
04:55D'après ce qu'on nous a dit aussi, il y a des députés qui ont cherché à se réfugier
04:59à l'ambassade de France.
05:00On a essayé de joindre l'ambassade de France.
05:02Personne ne répond.
05:03Pour l'instant, on est toujours bloqués ici.
05:04Pour l'instant, on est toujours bloqués ici.
05:11C'est ce qui est.
05:12Tu es intelligent si tu aime tes filles.
05:13Tu dois partir.
05:14C'est là.
05:15Tu dois partir.
05:16C'est nous, on n'a plus le pouvoir.
05:17Maintenant, on ne t'applaudit plus.
05:20Zephiron Diabre is a former manager of the French nuclear group Arriva.
05:29He is also Compares former minister of finance and now the leader of the opposition.
05:40The first deputies came to celebrate the storming of parliament by the people.
05:45Benawendez Sankara is the Marxist-Leninist leader of the Sankarist movement.
05:50He hopes to replace Compares in Kozyam, the presidential palace.
05:55The National Assembly has literally been sent, put in a bag.
06:00So we have to be ready for the Constitution.
06:06The next step is to release Kozyam.
06:09Dear compatriots, the Burkina Faso people,
06:12there is a few minutes ago that the political opposition had exited the pure and simple
06:18of the law scolera porting to the modification of the 37th and abstention of the president Blaise Compares
06:23at all initiatives touching the Constitution.
06:26Since then, the things have dramatically evolved.
06:29The information that we have come to do is make the case of dozens of deaths
06:34of our country, the territory of our capital and the country.
06:37Face this barbarous escalation, the political opposition,
06:41here, in the name of the people,
06:43exige the pure and simple démission of the President Blaise Compares.
06:46What do we do ?
06:53We are with the security of the opposition.
06:56They will try to take us up to the LOUISEE Nation!
07:03Hey, hey!
07:05You got it!
07:07Hey, hey, hey!
07:09Let's go!
07:11Hey!
07:13Hey!
07:15They were here for the CRS!
07:19Yes, they left you go.
07:21They didn't let you go.
07:23They wanted to get beat.
07:25We won't resist.
07:27We're here to where we are today.
07:29We've got to!
07:31We've got to love!
07:33We're not going to do the word!
07:38Come on, come on!
07:39Come on, come on!
07:40No one will push you!
07:53We're just in front of the National Assembly.
07:55You should take the vote this morning on the Constitution's revision.
07:59The protesters have literally all been saccaged.
08:03By the end of the day, it was total chaos and Parliament was in disarray.
08:08The presidential guard had shot into the crowd and there had been dozens of deaths.
08:13The following morning, Blaise Comparé resigned.
08:17We later found out that the French Special Forces had helped him flee the country.
08:23The people managed to oust the president in only two days.
08:27After Comparé fled, the buildings that came to symbolize his rule became tourist attractions, including the house of his hated brother, François Comparé.
08:37Following two weeks of intense negotiations between political and military leaders, the committee in charge of the transfer of power announced it had chosen Michel Cofondo as the country's interim president.
08:49Coffondo, a retired diplomat, will serve as the transitional leader until November 2015, when elections will determine the new president of Burkina Federal.
08:59If you think this is the former president of Burkina Federal.
09:01If you think this was the president's office on the side of the city of条約 Estado, the presidential administration became racist.
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