Watamou Lamien

[1][2] Through his role in the radio, during the period of late 1981 and early 1982 he was frequently in contact with the Secretary of State for Information, Captain Thomas Sankara.

[3] On 10 August 1984 Lamien took part in the founding of the Union of Burkinabé Communists (UCB), and was included in the permanent secretariat of the new party.

[8] In 1988 he died, per official reports in a car crash en route to the set of the film Yaaba (one of the movies that he had mobilized financial support for).

[8] There were significant rumours that the death of Lamien had not been accidental, but that he had been assassinated as part of the internal struggles in the Popular Front regime.

[9] Per Bruno Jaffré [ca] Lamien had been, along with Clément Oumarou Ouédraogo (who was killed by a grenade), the only influential civilian politicians resisting the rightward shift of the Burkinabé government.