Guinea to probe rally shootings
From the BBC:
Guinea’s military government has announced it is setting up a commission to investigate the shooting of protesters in the capital last week.
Its members are to be drawn from political parties, unions and civic organisations as well as the military. Human rights groups say 157 people were killed in the incident, while the government puts the figure at only 57.
Opposition parties have rejected meditation talks until those behind the stadium killings face justice. [...]
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Separately, The New York Times reported yesterday:
Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation.
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