![]() 1 bauxite supplier may have less to do with the pariah leader’s grip on power than with the culture of anarchy and violence that that has seeped into the country’s military over the past 25 years, experts say. “Those who got caught climbing the wall trying to escape were finished off with either a machete, a knife or an iron bar,” Oumar Camara, a survivor of the September 28 stadium killings, told Reuters.īut the violence in the world’s No. “The scale of the massacres, the nature of crimes committed, rapes on women sometimes using gun barrels, shows we have serious reasons to worry,” he said. ![]() “The army is the bane of democracy in Guinea,” said Youssouf Sylla, an international human rights lawyer living in Conakry. The leader of the country’s ruling military junta, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, attracted international condemnation after gunmen last month opened fire on opposition protesters in a stadium, killing 157 and wounding more than a thousand according to a local human rights group. This is not a war zone but another day in the capital of Guinea, a West African mining powerhouse whose people have been cursed by a generation of bullying military rule and an army that many say is blocking the way to stability. Soldiers keep watch at the international airport in Conakry, Guinea, October 5, 2009.
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