Guinea troops gun down 157 protesters in stadium
At least 157 people were killed and 1,253 wounded when Guinea junta troops broke up a huge demonstration in Conakry on Monday, the Guinean Human Rights Organisation told AFP yesterday.
Guinea junta troops also raped women when they broke up a huge demonstration, opposition leaders said yesterday amid deadly new unrest.
Soldiers shot dead a youth in Conakry on Tuesday and gunfire rang out across the capital, witnesses said. Soldiers were again attacking people and raping women in their homes, rights groups said.
The United Nations, African Union and European Union all expressed alarm over the killings among tens of thousands of people who attended the rally against junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara.
But much of Conakry remained closed Tuesday, with inhabitants stunned by the clampdown in the September 28 stadium.
Earlier the opposition Union of Republican Forces said that 128 dead were taken to two Conakry hospitals after the shootings Monday. The party and other sources have accused junta forces of collecting bodies in a bid to hide "the scale of the massacre".
The party's leader, Sydia Toure, was one of two former prime ministers injured at the demonstration and later taken into custody. Toure told AFP that the shootings were "a deliberate attempt" to eliminate the opposition.
Mamadi Kaba, head of the Guinean branch of the African Encounter for the Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO), said the rapes of women started in the stadium.
"The military raped women" at the stadium and later at army barracks, police posts and other parts of Conakry, Kaba said, adding that there were reports of new rape attacks by soldiers on Tuesday.
Opposition activist, Mouctar Diallo, said he saw soldiers putting their rifle into the vaginas of naked women. "I saw this myself," he told French radio station RFI.
"They were raping women publicly," Diallo added. "Soldiers were shooting everywhere and I saw people fall. They were live bullets."
An AFP journalist saw at least 10 bodies with bullet wounds inside the stadium and three badly injured people laid out in front of a police post near the stadium. One had his leg broken in two places.
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