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Posted on Saturday 28 November 2009 - 13:04
KingsleyKobo
Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
The number of women raped by Guinean soldiers during a crackdown on protesters in September has been given to be 100. The findings were released by the Guinean Organisation of Human Rights, which is working with the United Nations experts who are currently investigating the repression that took the lives of some 160 Guineans - mostly youths.
"We have recorded 100 cases of rape against women committed on September 28 and the two days that followed," Thierno Maadjou Sow, president of the Guinean Organisation of Human Rights, said.

"Most of them were schoolchildren, students, businesswomen, teachers, even journalists," according to Reuters.

The organisation also revealed evidence that 20 victims were taken from a medical clinic to secret locations where they were drugged and raped repeatedly.

Witnesses have said some soldiers violated women using gun barrels and bayonets.

The demonstrators were gathered in a Conakry stadium to protest against an eventual presidential candidacy of the country’s military leader Captain Musa Dadis Camara, who earlier promised not to run for future elections but was later showing interest.

The crackdown has drawn widespread condemnation and brought sanctions against the ruling military junta who came to power after the death of former President Lansana Conté in December 2008.

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