The remains of Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be reburied Thursday along with 12 comrades at the spot where they were assassinated in a 1987 coup, the country's junta has said. Communications Minister Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo in a press release last Friday said that Sankara's family had said they will not attend the ceremony. Sankara came to power in August 1983 as an army captain, aged 33. Nicknamed Africa's Che Guevara, he was a fiery Marxist-Leninist who chastised the West for neo-colonialism and hypocrisy.