Guinea: Security Forces Still a Threat

press release

New York — Amnesty International today called on the Guinean authorities to take immediate measures to stop security forces from using excessive force against unarmed civilians in policing operations. The organization also called on the government to provide judicial and material reparations to the families of over 130 killed and to the more than 1,500 injured during weeks of violent repression of mainly peaceful protests in January and February 2007.

"The Guinean security forces are a permanent threat to the people of Guinea," said Véronique Aubert, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Africa Programme. "Thy have repeatedly used force against the population when the government feels threatened. The fact that no one has been held to account clearly shows how state authorities - up to the highest level - have covered up these acts and even encouraged them."

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