Guinea’s military junta chief, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara speaks in Conakry on September 30, 2009. Guinea’s ruling junta has purged 60 soldiers and prison officers from the security services after a jailbreak that saw armed commandos pluck ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara from prison and left nine dead, officials said Monday.
“Thank God, the chaos that evil minds to provoke after this event, this chaos has been halted,” Prime Minister Bernard Goumou said on Sunday. Camara’s lawyer and the army announced later on Saturday that he had been recaptured and was back behind bars, without providing details.Prosecutor General Yamoussa Conte said in a statement on Monday that nine people had died in the jailbreak operation.Three were suspected attackers, while the others included four members of the security forces and two people, presumed to be civilians, who had been in an ambulance, and were reportedly caught in crossfire.
Pivi, a leading figure during Camara’s rule, and two other colonels who also escaped from jail on Saturday, were among those removed.He and about 10 other former military and government officials, including the three colonels, stand accused over a massacre in 2009 carried out by security forces loyal to the then junta leader.
The trial is unprecedented in a country ruled for decades by authoritarian regimes, where people had become used to the impunity of the security forces.Camara seized power immediately after the death of Lansana Conte, Guinea’s second post-independence president, who had ruled autocratically for 24 years.
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