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Guinea, April 3, 1984: the day the prisoners of Camp Boiro were released
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Cells at Camp Boiro in Guinea, where thousands of political opponents were imprisoned under the regime of Sékou Touré (photo from 1984). © Getty Images/Jean-Claude Francolon
On April 3, 1984, the military took power in Guinea, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré. They then decide to release the prisoners held at Camp Boiro, a camp emblematic of the repression that marked the “party-state” regime. Abdoulaye Barry “Opéma”, photographer at the Ministry of National Defense, was sent to cover this liberation in images. Forty years later, he comments, with Mouctar Bah, on a selection of photos he took that day.
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