Burst shots without warning on a peaceful political demonstration held in a stadium. Civilians surrounded by the army and killed on site with automatic weapons, daggers and bayonets, beaten to death with blows of boards with nails. Women raped and horribly mutilated, others removed to serve as "sex slaves" in the army camps and villas.

The UN Investigation commission on the events in Guinea considers that the massacres and other violence perpetrated on September 28 and subsequent days in Conakry, the capital, within the "crime against humanity".

In a report presented on December 19th to the Security Council, the commission attributed the responsibility to the Head of State of Guinea: "The Committee considers that there are sufficient basis to presume a direct criminal responsibility of President Moussa Camara Dadis."

over 60 pages, the three investigators describe as accurate and detailed, not a day of political confrontation that went wrong, but a series of killings, "systematic" rape and torture "organized "against a part of the population.

They require the International Court of Justice seisin and named several people in the entourage of Mr. Camara as possibly responsible for these "crimes against humanity".

THREE DAYS.

The violence lasted three days in Conakry. Objective: to intimidate all those who contest Mr. Camara candidacy for 210 presidential elections. The head of the military junta is in power since December 23rd 2008.

Mr. Camara is now convalescing in Morocco. He was wounded by gunfire on December 3rd in an assassination attempt attributed to his aide, Lieutenant Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite, alias "Toumba", currently a fugitive. But the report of the UN commission is very damning.

The reporters confirm some previously cited figures: 156 people killed or missing on September 28 and at least 109 women and girls victim of rape, sexual mutilation and sexual slavery.

The committee, which heard 700 witnesses, estimates that the authorities did everything to hide the truth and said: "The number of victims is probably higher." They mention that "hundreds of other cases of torture, cruel and degrading treatment" organized by security forces in the days following on September 28th.

The commission was mandated by order the UN General Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon, directly referred to the Minister of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner who mobilized the European Union, the United States and many countries of Africa on the case.
For their day of protest, opposition movements chose September 28, the anniversary of independence in 1958. And they decided to hold their event at the stadium also September 28 Stadium.
Thousands of people gather early in the morning on the lawn and around the bleachers. There have been clashes in the city short with security forces. The opposition leaders are hardly installed in the gallery as shots ring out outside the stadium. Protesters index the police.

Moments later, soldiers arrived in, the presidential guard, the Red Berets - which the commission will allocate the bulk of crimes. A unit enters the stadium and fired without warning, automatic weapons in bursts: dozens of people were mowed down, others trampled to death in the ensuing panic.

Protesters try to flee. But they are trapped, tells the UN commission: outside, another unit of Red Berets blocked the exits of the stadium with barbed wire electrified. The terror campaign could continue. Backed by police and militia pro-Camara masked and dressed in black, the Red Berets still drew occasionally, they stabbed, beat and rape.
"TO A MAXIMUM OF VICTIMS '
"Several bodies of victims retrieved by the families had received bullets in the head, chest or ribs," the commission wrote. She adds: "The use of lethal weapons against unarmed civilians, the fact of opening fire with live ammunition and without warning on a compact crowd gathered on the lawn and firing bullets until exhaustion and targeted parts of the body including vital organs are all evidence of the premeditated intention to make maximum casualties among the demonstrators."

Soldiers isolated numbers of women and girls from the other demonstrators. Some are taken to the military camp Alpha Yaya Diallo, and villas to be used, for several days, as sex slaves for soldiers. Others were raped there. The committee traced scenes of rare violence: "Women have been raped with objects, including bayonets, sticks, pieces of metal batons", "soldiers have completed rape by introducing guns in their vagina and drawing ";" a blindfolded woman, who had been raped, was murdered by a soldier when she pulled the scarf from her eyes. "

The massacre of the stadium stops at 2 pm. trucks carried the bodies to the morgues of the Conakry, where they were quickly removed by the army to be buried in mass graves. "The military cut off the arms and legs of some bodies to make them easier to bury into the pits," reports the UN.

But within two days after the terror continues in Conakry. The injured were tracked in hospitals, sometimes killed on the spot, the soldiers committed other rapes, and the homes of opposition leaders were looted by supporters of Captain Camara.

On several occasions, the UN insists that the campaign of terror seemed to be premeditated and organized to crush the opposition. Captain Camara addition, the report cited among the officials most directly implicated in these crimes: Lieutenant Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite (Toumba), Commandant Moussa Thiegboro Camara, chief of special services, Captain Claude Pivi and Marcel Guilavogui assistant of Toumba and Dadis’ nephew as well.


Mamadou Dian Donghol Diallo
The africanews reporter in Conakry.