{"id":208536,"date":"2025-09-29T23:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-memory-and-mourning-as-guinea-marks-2009-conakry-stadium-massacre\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:45:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:45:51","slug":"guinea-memory-and-mourning-as-guinea-marks-2009-conakry-stadium-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-memory-and-mourning-as-guinea-marks-2009-conakry-stadium-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Memory and Mourning As Guinea Marks 2009 Conakry Stadium Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em> On the anniversary of Guinea&#8217;s 2009 stadium massacre, the quest for justice and accountability continues amid the daily realities of military rule and fresh tensions over a controversial referendum. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Sixteen years after the Conakry stadium massacre, Guineans are reminded of one of the darkest chapters in their recent history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">On 28 September 2009, security forces stormed a peaceful opposition rally at the capital&#8217;s main stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">By the time the violence subsided, at least 156 people had been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509290033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the anniversary of Guinea&#8217;s 2009 stadium massacre, the quest for justice and accountability continues amid the daily realities of military rule and fresh tensions over a controversial referendum. Sixteen years after the Conakry stadium massacre, Guineans are reminded of one of the darkest chapters in their recent history. On 28 September 2009, security forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00310216:61953340bcc43efebdd45ba9ca68c01c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1235,4715,1124,9877,2075,19289,11303,257,254,9328],"class_list":["post-208536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conakry","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-marks","tag-massacre","tag-memory","tag-mourning","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00310216:61953340bcc43efebdd45ba9ca68c01c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}