SPRAYING LIVE BULLETS ON ONE’S OWN PEOPLE

Author: Publisher | Date: 30-09-09 | Topic: Burning Issues

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                                          A Crime Against Humanity

The crowd was huge and their demand is simple. Captain Moussa Dadis Camara led a coup d’etat and seized power in 2008. He told the whole world that he would not participate in elections but would preside over a free and fair election before the end of 2009. The date for elections has been pushed to 2010 and efforts have been underway to promote his candidature. He has been taking the initiative to show some members of the international Community that there is a popular pressure for him to stand. Those opposed to him also requested to hold a meeting to express their opposition. They were banned from holding their meeting.

They decided to meet at the stadium and young armed personnel, sons of Guinea who were brought up and educated by the people had the heart to aim guns at their brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, mothers, fathers and friends and sprayed live bullets on their compatriots like some one spraying insecticides on cockroaches. The Guinean branch of RADDHO which is established in defence of human rights put the death toll at 157 and 1200 injured so far. The Interior Minister claims that they are aware of only 57 deaths. This crime against humanity is not being perpetrated by western agents. They are being perpetrated by people from the same country with the same colour of skin and culture as the people they massacred.

Worse still those who perpetrated the act are young people who were born during the years Africa is said to have attained independent and sovereign status. The reader should just look at the pictures put out by the media. Foroyaa has long endorsed the view of a military man himself that a soldier without love for his or her people is a criminal in uniform. Such are the people who have no homeland, no people, no vision, no mission, no passion for justice, no love for compatriots. Such people exist only for pocket and status. They would do anything for pocket and status. They are the perpetrators of crimes against humanity on the Continent. They do not hesitate to transform wives into widows and children into orphans and go on and eat, drink and sleep without a tormented conscience.

Africans have no moral authority to indict those who enslave the African People and colonized them until they are fully committed to building an Africa where sovereignty resides in the people, where they have absolute power to exercise their freedom of expression and freedom of association, where they have unrestricted authority to decide who should manage their affairs. Leaders who could spray live bullets on unarmed and defenceless people have no right to demand respect from anyone. We hope the Leaders of the Sub-Region will meet with immediacy to restrain the Guinean leader and stop his government from perpetrating such heinous crimes against humanity.

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