Tamba Jean-Matthew
25 October 2009
Dakar — Prominent French rights lawyer Jacques Verges and several of his colleagues have agreed to help unearth the truth about the last month's massacre in Conakry.
Last week, the victims of the bloody repression by the Guinean military junta sued the regime for crimes against humanity committed during a political rally.
The carnage led to the death of at least 150 people. An undisclosed number of women and girls were assaulted and raped.
Several other people were injured during a protest rally held at the 28 September stadium and organised by opposition political parties against the candidacy of junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara.
Abominable rape
The "legal battle" will simply try "to defend the memory as well as the victims of that abominable rape," said Jean-Louis Camara, a Guinean lawyer and spokesperson of the victims of the repression.
He told the international media in Conakry on Friday, that the military junta was answerable for the complaint filed by the victims of the violence, "because that is a crime against humanity".
The spokesman said the group of victims had in the beginning intended to make their appeal to the International Criminal Court (ICC), but rescinded that decision when they realised that the court could do it on its volition.
"We are therefore going to appeal to the African Heads of State to set up an African jurisdiction that is specifically tailored for rights violations committed against Africans," he said.
The massacre
"Africans should henceforth take care of themselves and bring to book all those connected to the massacre in Guinea, including the junta leader, so that they could respond to the charges levelled against them."
Mr Verges noted that the Guinean junta leader was trying hard to exonerate himself and get out of the situation.
He pointed out that Capt Camara had declared two days of mourning in Guinea and set up an independent investigation commission in an attempt to exonerate himself.
Another Guinean lawyer Jean Louis Keita said the victims had opted for foreign tervention because of their lack of faith in the Guinean justice system.
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If the french COLONIALIST lawyer really wants to make themselves useful, then they would go and agitate against the racist french police and french government that have been targeting African people in France and denying them opportunities to prosper in colonialist france.
Guinea leadership and nationalists should NEVER EVER allow criminal european colonialists to continue the delusion that Africa is a colony of france or of Europe.
What has been happening is that the racist and colonialist french and europeans encouraged divisions among Africans in Guinea, then the criminal french and europeans enter the fray later to give the appearance that they are other than the colonialist devils Africans have come to know over the generations.
European business LIES IN EUROPE! All french in Guinea should be 'put to flight'! Let the racist, divisive, inquisitive and dictatorial bastards go fix france!