Wednesday in Conakry, it was the presentation of a brochure of testimonies of women who lived a painful situation in a stadium of Conakry on September 28, 2009. They were raped by soldiers of the Guinean army under the regime of the captain. Moussa Dadis Camara, while thousands of opponents gathered in the large stadium of Conakry to say no to the candidacy of the head of the then ruling junta.
With our correspondent in Conakry, Mouctar Bah
It was in front of an audience of Guinean personalities, women victims of rape during the painful events of September 28, 2009, human rights and the United Nations system that this book was presented to the public.
“ This book is a living testimony of what has been endured, but it is also a conjunction of what must be done for the reparations to be effective. », Explains Amadou Bal of the United Nations system.
This book is an initiative of the Global Fund for Survivors of Sexual Violence, the Association of Victims of September 28 and the Guinean Organization for Human Rights.
” The idea is to show the impact of interim reparation measures, develops Maud Scelo, communications director at the Global Fund for Survivors of Sexual Violence, to show how these reparation measures orchestrated by the global fund for survivors were able to transform the lives of survivors, give them access to an education for their children, provide for their needs, allow them to heal themselves and to build a project of to come up “.
A woman who experienced the worst times of her life in this stadium during these events testifies. ” My brothers helped me because they too were at the stadium. To cheer me up they told me that at least I was alive, while others had died at the September 28 stadium. Every time I saw soldiers I shut myself up, I felt guilty because I had pushed people to attend the rally. I’ve seen dead people and this bloodbath comes back to me every time “.
During these events, at least 157 opponents were killed and 109 women were raped.