Thirty four years after the assassination of the president of Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, 14 men are finally going on trial for the death, The New York Times reports. 

Thomas Sankara was fatally shot in the country’s capital, Ouagadougou, along with 12 other people by a hit squad, in 1987.

Among those going on trial are Sankara’s close friend, Blaise Compaore, who went on to succeed the assassinated man as president and stayed in power for 27 years.