Guinea: death of Abbas Bah, figure of the demand for justice for the victims of the Boiro camp
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Cells at Camp Boiro, where thousands of political opponents were imprisoned under the Sékou Touré regime (photo from 1986) AFP / DANIEL JANIN
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Abbas Bah was a former prisoner of this emblematic prison of the Sekou Touré regime.
Political repression has claimed 50,000 victims there, according to several NGOs including Amnesty International.
Abbas Bah had been detained there for two years, out of the seven spent in prison between 1971 and 1978. He was the former president and dean of the Association of victims of the Boiro camp, which has been fighting for years for the rehabilitation of former detainees. .
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He is one of the survivors, and since 1984, at the opening of the Boiro camp, he has not ceased to campaign, so that the truth is known, so that there is the rehabilitation of the victims, so that Guinea can be reconciled. with itself.
Really, until the last minute, even when I was sick.
Abdoulaye Conté, President of the Association of Victims of Camp Boiro
Leonard Vincent
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