Guinea Forces Fire on Coup Protesters

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Source: WSJ

CONAKRY, Guinea -- Government security forces fired at a crowd gathered on Monday to protest the leader of a coup in the West African nation, killing at least 58 people, a human-rights group said, deepening the political crisis in the world's top exporter of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum.

The violence comes after months of uncertainty since Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara seized power in a December 2008 coup after longtime dictator Lansana Conte died. Capt. Camara has said that he has the right to contest presidential elections scheduled for Jan. 31. While he hasn't yet made an official announcement, he told diplomats that he will run. Capt. Camara initially had pledged that he wouldn't run for office.

Opposition parties organized the protest, which drew some 50,000 people in Conakry, the capital. The protesters had gathered in defiance of a government ban on the event, then broke into the stadium to hold their rally.

Then, soldiers in red berets from the presidential guard entered and fired on the crowd. Several people were killed, and some opposition leaders were arrested, witnesses said. "At one hospital alone, we have counted 58 bodies," Thierno Maadjou Sow, president of the Guinean Human Rights Organization, told Reuters. "It seems there are many more corpses" in another hospital.

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[imdjh]

1. US forces fire on right wing cavemen

The United States Of America forced its most backward and primitive minority to accept the knowledge of fire today. Tomorrow, they will have to switch from hunting and gathering to farming. By the end of next month we hope to have them to the Bronze Age and fit for integration to society by the end of 2016.

[frog92969]

2. Comming soon to a town near you!

No, I'm not kidding.

[Rebubula]

4. Kidding or not..

...you are wrong. This will not occur here ever.

This kind of shit is more than would ever occur in this nation. The soldiers are stripping and raping women in the streets...more than 150 are dead and thousands are wounded. Drunken soldiers walking the streets shooting into the air and at civilians.

To think that this would occur here is ignorant at best.

[GillesDeleuze]

5. when the free states of america attempt a coup via police and military

and damn near succeed, it'll be block by block warfare.

[frog92969]

9. You failed to convince me

despite implying my ignorance.

We have all that now in diluted form.
As our international government gets more and more organized,
you'll see less and less difference between one country and the next.

IMO, the blind defense of the USA because it's the USA
is a very ignorant viewpoint.

[earcandle]

3. to create mice from men, follow this formula and don't protest or call your congresscritter.

[Matariki]

6. Wow. Going to Conakry for vacation in Janurary

Damn. It's going to be exciting.

[Turbineguy]

7. You are serious?

Conakry is what ship Captains put on the sailing board for next port of call to discourage stowaways.

[Matariki]

8. Absolutely serious. West African Drum and Dance workshop

Staying with the family of my dance instructor's husband who teaches drumming here in Seattle. Can't wait to go, but it certainly looks like an 'exciting' time to be going ;-)