Guinea’s governing military junta has decided that the 61-year-old ex leader should be pardoned, according to a decree that is read in state television. It states “health reasons”.
At least 157 people were shot, struck, beaten or trampled to death when military forces stormed a football arena in the capital Conakry in September 2009. Lots of protesters had gathered to protest against the decision of then President Camara to stand in another election. Hundreds of women were raped during a violent course that went on on the arena for several days.
Camara’s then rule argued that individual army units acted on their own initiative, but it later emerged that his close employees followed it all in place without intervening.
In July last year, Moussa Dadis Camara was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity as the most responsible for the massacre.
The West African country’s current Junta came to power through a military coup in 2021 and governs with iron hand.