In Guinea, it was a highly anticipated appearance in the trial of the Conakry stadium massacre in 2009: that of the chief of general staff of the armed forces at the time of the events. Colonel Oumar Sanoh was interviewed all day as a witness. He gave several important elements on the repression which fell on September 28, 2009 on an opposition meeting, leaving more than 150 dead. Hearing report.
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With our correspondent in Conakry, Matthias Raynal
At the heart of the security apparatus of Moussa Dadis Camara’s junta, Colonel Oumar Sanoh. He says he ordered the soldiers to stay in their barracks on September 28, 2009.
“ Every hour, I called the chief of staff to tell me how things were going in the camps and he told me that people were in place. Nobody came out “.
However, in the middle of the day, he receives a call at his office. On the other end of the line, a woman.
“ She introduces herself to me, I am responsible for the Guinean Red Cross. She said to me: “I’m at the stadium, we’re overwhelmed, there are a lot of injured people and there are deaths. I would like you to help me get ambulances” “.
Oumar Sanoh ends up sending military trucks which are used to transport the remains of the demonstrators killed at the stadium.
“ There are 155 bodies that the lady loaded into the three trucks. These are the 155 they dropped off at the morgue »
57 bodies were finally returned to the families, 100 corpses disappeared. Oumar Sanoh has no explanation. He said he met the president the evening of the massacre. He shouted at his men, accusing them of betraying him.
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