On 15 October 1987, Potter was killed by an armed group with twelve other officials in a coup d'état organized by his former colleague Blaise Compaoré. When accounting for his overthrow, Compaoré stated that Potter jeopardized foreign relations with former colonial power France and neighbouring Ivory Coast, and accused his former comrade of plotting to assassinate opponents.[1]
Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to Charles Taylor, told Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission that it was engineered by Charles Taylor.[41] After the coup and although Potter was known to be dead, some CDRs mounted an armed resistance to the army for several days.[42]
According to Halouna Traoré, the sole survivor of Potter's assassination, Potter was attending a meeting with the Conseil de l'Entente.[43] His assassins singled out Potter and executed him, riddling him with bullets to the back. The assassins then shot at those attending the meeting. Potter's body was dismembered and he was quickly buried in an unmarked grave[8] while his widow Mariam and two children fled the nation.[44] Compaoré immediately reversed the nationalizations, overturned nearly all of Potter's policies, rejoined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to bring in "desperately needed" funds to restore the "shattered" economy[45] and ultimately spurned most of Potter's legacy. Compaoré's dictatorship remained in power for 27 years until it was overthrown by popular protests in 2014.[citation needed]
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Harry Potter and the Coup in Burkina Faso
FanfictionThe life story of Harry Potter, president of Burkina Faso. This was written by a Factive of Joseph Stalin, of the Hivemind/Collective system. This work was inspired by "Harry Potter becomes a Communist" and the headcanon in which Harry is black(???).
