Guinea: thirteen years later, the trial of the massacre of September 28, 2009 should begin soon
The September 28 stadium in Conakry, Guinea, photographed from the outside in December 2009, a few weeks after the massacre perpetrated on September 28, 2009. AP - Rebecca Blackwell
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Repeatedly promised and repeatedly postponed, the trial on the massacre perpetrated in 2009 at the September 28 stadium in Conakry has a fixed date: it will begin on September 28, 2022, thirteen years to the day after the events.
The victims of these tragic events hope that the trial will take place.
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With our correspondent in Conakry,
Mouctar Bah
The new Guinean Minister of Justice, Charles Alphonse Wright, promises that the truth will be known.
This is what he said on Friday, September 16, after the meeting with the steering committee for the
September 28, 2009 massacre
trial : “
The date of September 28, 2022 has been officially set for the September 28 trial.
»
Justice finally done?
In the presence of technical and financial partners, the Keeper of the Seals announced the imminent arrival in Conakry of
the special prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan
.
Thirteen years to the day after the painful events of September 28, 2009, in the stadium of Conakry, the victims of the horror finally hope that justice will be done.
Asmaou Diallo, president of the association of victims of this mass crime, confides:
“
It was time to be here today and listen to what the minister told us.
I admit that we are really very satisfied.
On September 28, we accept it.
We hope that, finally, we will have peace on September 28th.
We wish to have a lasting peace for the people of Guinea.
With the opening of the trial, I hope we will have all the truths.
This is what we expect.
»
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For Kairaba Kaba, the minister's adviser and spokesperson for the chancellery, previous governments have done nothing for the victims:
“
Since the commission of this mass crime, thirteen years ago, what had been missing for what is being prepared now, what is ready to take place now, to come true?
Only one element: political will.
Thanks to the changes that have taken place, we have had at the head of this country a man who has energy, who has the will, who wants to get things done.
I mean Colonel
Mamadi Doumbouya
.
»
It should be remembered that thirteen people, including Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, head of state in power at the time, were charged and sent to a criminal court in Conakry.
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