Guinea Stadium Trial to Resume

Former Leaders Face Justice Before Judges, Victims

Exactly thirteen years after Guinea’s security forces massacred peaceful protesters in a stadium, those accused of being responsible went on trial. Surviving victims and their families waited in a long and winding line to enter the courthouse.

On September 28, 2009, tens of thousands of people gathered in the stadium to protest a bid for the presidency by military ruler, then-president Moussa Dadis Camara. More than 150 people were killed, their…