At least Three young people lost their lives this Tuesday as part of protests against the military junta The government that ran the country on the eve of the coup’s anniversary, as condemned by the Living Forces of Guinea (FVG), the organizers of the demonstration. FVG said in a statement that the deceased were aged between 16 and 18, and that the deaths were attributed to Guinean security forces agents in the capital, Conakry.
“The National Committee for Reconciliation and Development (CNRD), the official name of the Board, remained true to its tradition and strongly reacted to the peaceful demonstration slogan (…) organized by the FVG on September 5th. Any attempt to create an atmosphere of terror and to question the dictatorial management of the transition. It aims to suppress the attempt,” the statement said.
civil organization criticized “this massive deployment” It denounced the “killing” of the trigger-ready defense and security forces, and condemned the “killing” of 29 people, the gunshot wounds of 108, the “life-crippled 12 of them and hundreds of arbitrary detentions and arrests” since June 2022. “Add to these acts of vandalism, the FVG added, that security forces carried out looting and attacks on the homes of peaceful citizens. Competent courts claimed that this crackdown on marchers “witnessed the panic that overtook a junta,” whose sole project was to seize power for the purpose of personal enrichment from a family. bloody hands”.
In this sense, the FVG asked the international community to demand that the transitional authorities “scrupulously respect their national and international commitments with respect to the respect of Human Rights and the restoration of the constitutional order”.
The CNRD was formed after months of political crisis in the country over the election victory and the decision to amend the Constitution to run for a third term, following the coup against then-president Alpha Condé in September 2021. The 2020 presidential election, where the rest of the candidates denounced fraud.