Guinea's September massacre pre-planned: HRW
Admin - Oct 27, 09
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DAKAR October 27, 2009 (Reuters) - The killing of more than 150 people at an opposition rally by Guinean security forces on September 28 was premeditated, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
The bloody crackdown has drawn broad international condemnation of the country's ruling military junta led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, with the European Union on Tuesday saying it would impose an arms embargo.
Human Rights Watch said Camara and some of his closest military associates in the National Campaign for Democracy and Development (CNDD) junta should face criminal prosecution for the incident, characterized by rapes and brutal beatings.
"Security forces surrounded and blockaded the stadium, then stormed in and fired at protesters in cold blood until they ran out of bullets," Africa director Georgette Gagnon said in a statement. "They carried out grisly gang rapes and murders of women in full sight of the commanders. That's no accident."
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