Last October I had a post on Captain Moussa Dadis Camara - who seized power in a coup d’état in 2008 in Guinea after the death of longtime dictator Lansana Conté - losing his keys. Today the New Yorker published an article by Jon Lee Anderson that deals with the September 28 (2009) massacre that took place in Conakry - the country's capital - when Camara's forces attacked a large, peaceful rally at the national soccer stadium (here).
Luckily Camara has a good and convincing reason why his forces could not have committed rape. As Anderson notes in the article: "He (Camera) added that the September 28th incident had begun and ended in ten minutes. As for the allegations of rape, he scoffed, "Can a military man with a gun in his hand rape a women in ten minutes?" Shaking his head side to side, he smiled and said, "I don't think so.""
Good point! More seriously, luckily Camara has been out of office since the assassination attempt on him on 3 December 2009 when he was shot by his aide-de-camp, Aboubacar Diakité. While he was airlifted to Morocco for treatment, Brigadier General Sékouba Konaté was placed in charge of Guinea. The latter seems to behave, and elections are planned for June this year.
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