GUINEA'S FORMER DICTATOR PARDONED OVER THE 2009 STADIUM MASSACRE. (PHOTO).
Guinea’s former dictator pardoned over the 2009 stadium massacre Guinea’s ruling junta has pardoned the country’s former dictator, Moussa “Dadis” Camara, who was serving a 20-prison sentence for the 2009 stadium massacre by the military, according to a decree read on state television, AP reported. Camara was sentenced in July 2024 after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity in the deaths of at least 157 people at the stadium. Dozens of women were also raped. Troops opened fire on demonstrators at the stadium who were protesting Camara’s plans to run for president, a year after staging a coup. The junta at the time said “uncontrolled” elements of the army carried out the rapes and killings. But Camara’s top aides were at the stadium and did nothing to stop the massacre, a Human Rights Watch report said. Many of the victims were shot, crushed or knifed to death while some of the women were dragged out from hiding and gang-raped by uniformed men over several days, witnesses ...
