Guinea: A Decade Later, No Justice for Massacre
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Families of victims
of the September 2009 massacre by Guinea’s
security forces are still awaiting justice 10 years later, six human rights
groups said today. The groups released a video to mark the massacre’s tenth anniversary featuring
victims pleading for the trial to go ahead.
The security forces killed more than 150 people demonstrating in a stadium in the capital, Conakry in the massacre, which began on September 28, 2009. Hundreds of people were wounded and more than a hundred women were victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the events of September 28 and their aftermath.
The security forces killed more than 150 people demonstrating in a stadium in the capital, Conakry in the massacre, which began on September 28, 2009. Hundreds of people were wounded and more than a hundred women were victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence in the events of September 28 and their aftermath.
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