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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Protester shot dead in Guinea |
| 2013-03-06 |
| [News24] At least one person was killed and six others maimed on Monday when Guinea's security forces opened fire in the capital, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group said, warning of a deepening ethnic conflict stemming from rows over forthcoming legislative elections. The gunfire broke out shortly after Guinea's main opposition leaders boycotted a meeting called by President Alpha Conde aimed at ending days of unrest that has spread beyond the capital and now killed at least six people. Hundreds of protesters have been maimed since the unrest began on Wednesday. Guinea's notoriously ill-disciplined security forces have a history of brutal crackdowns on protests. "Seven people were hit by bullets fired by the security forces," Thierno Maadjou Sow, head of Guinea's main human rights watchdog, OGDH, told Rooters. "One of them, Mamadou Aliou Bah, died from his wounds," he added. "It has become an ethnic battle between the Malinke and the Peul. Wherever one group is in the minority, they are attacked by the other." Government spokesperson Damantang Albert Camara said the situation was "worrying" but would not give a toll for Monday's festivities. |
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