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Landmark 2009 Stadium Massacre Trial to Start in Guinea liberianobserver.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liberianobserver.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The long-delayed trial of eleventwelve men accused of responsibility for the 2009 Guinean security forces’ massacre of more than 150 peaceful demonstrators and the rape of scores of women in a stadium in Conakry, the capital, is scheduled to open on September 28, 2022.
The president of the Guinean transition has pledged that the oft-postponed trial relating to the terrible repression of 2009 will finally take place by this September. A decision that contrasts with
President Alpha Condé’s unwillingness to give up power set the stage for a military takeover on 5 September. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Vincent Foucher and Rinaldo Depagne show how this latest coup d’état is part of a worrying trend in West Africa.