By RFIPalled on 29-09-2019Modified on 29-09-2019 at 01:25

This is the 10th anniversary without special commemorations for the massacre of September 28, 2009 in Guinea. On Saturday, a press conference was held at Avipa Headquarters, the 28 September Family and Friends Victims Association, calling for a retrial, but nothing more. In the absence of justice, the question of memory remains particularly delicate in the country.

Ten years, but still no official commemorations to the chagrin of Habibatou Camara, stadium victim: " The whole world is talking about Guinea's 28th of September, but here at home, this is not their problem. They do not interfere at all. "

The victims' association was limited to holding a press conference for lack of funding. " Usually we read the Quran to pray for the dead. Unfortunately, this year, due to lack of financial means, we can not do it because we were doing it with the European Union and the FIDH and unfortunately this can not be held this year ", explains Asmaou Diallo, the president of the organization.

See also: 28 September Massacre in Guinea: what RFI's archives say

Faya Milimono of the Liberal Bloc ran into a police cordon when he wanted to lay a wreath of flowers on the esplanade with some activists.

The Sekutouréist movement, meanwhile, wanted to commemorate the other 28 September, that of the "no" in the referendum that announced independence in 1958, but its carnival was aborted and its members briefly arrested.

The authorities have often stated that the victims of Camp Boiro in 1985 or 2007 were no less important than those at the stadium. But that is not the question, says Fodé Kouyaté, of civil society:

" In my opinion, the question of justice must first be settled. That is to say, we fight more with the arguments on the symbolic aspect than the aspect of the necessity of establishing justice . "

In the stadium fully repainted two days after the massacres, no commemorative plaque: a football tournament, music ... Saturday, sports and cultural activities have followed their course as usual.

It sends the signal that impunity is always in order (...) The message to send is that no one is above the law and that everyone must answer for his actions ... It is really time that the trial really takes place ...

Pascal Vahard, representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner in Guinea.

28-09-2019 - By Florence Morice

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