On September 28, 2022, the Guinean judicial authorities opened a long-delayed trial of 11 men – among them former government ministers and a former president – accused of responsibility for the 2009 Guinean security forces’ massacre of more than 150 peaceful demonstrators and rapes of scores of women in a stadium in Conakry, the capital. The trial is the first of its kind involving human rights violations on this scale before domestic courts in Guinea.
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This is the appearance that all Guineans have been waiting for. Will Moussa Dadis Camara, head of the junta at the time of the 2009 Conakry stadium massacre, acknowledge his responsibility after being implicated by some of his co-accused? The former leader denies everything of which he is accused.
Under questioning since October 19, Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité or "Toumba", a former aide-de-camp to Guinean junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara, has given his version of the facts about the 2009 stadium massacre in the capital Conakry. He has suggested Dadis was the one who gave the orders, and has sown discord in the ranks of the defence.
, Thirteen years to the day after the Conakry stadium massacre that left 157 people dead, the trial officially opened against those held responsible. Three men the United Nations had identified as the main culprits are all in the dock, together with nine others. During the first hearings on 10 October, Colonel Moussa Tiegboro Camara denied any wrongdoing and instead accused Aboubacar Sidiki Toumba Diakité, at the time the head of the presidential guard, of having been the main perpetrator. Diakité will appear later.