CONARKY: Guinean prosecutors on Wednesday demanded life sentences for former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and six other military or government officials over a 2009 massacre, saying they were guilty of crimes against humanity.
The chief prosecutor, Alghassimou Diallo, denied the defendants any mitigating circumstances, pointing to their lack of regret since the landmark trial began in September 2022.On September 28, 2009, and in the days that followed, members of the presidential guard, soldiers, police and militiamen brutally cracked down on an opposition rally at a stadium in the suburbs of the capital Conakry.
When she heard the prosecutor's requests, 'the rest didn't interest me anymore, I was so relieved, so drunk with happiness,' she said.'Got what they deserved' On Wednesday, three representatives from the public prosecutor's office recounted before the court the sheer brutality of the acts committed in September 2009.
Demand Life Imprisonment For Guinea Ex-Dictator Dadis Camara
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