Demonstrators marching to the UN on Dec 8
From Mayor David Dinkins to opposition party leader Francois Fall, Radio Nostalgie journalist and September 28 eye witness Nassirou Diallo to students from Herricks High School on Long Island, Mme Kadiatou Diallo to New York activist and writer Kevin Powell, hundreds of people marched from the Guinean consulate to the United Nations in New York today to say that we will not stand idly by as the latest military despots in Guinea act with impunity. Instead, the crowd demanded that the perpetrators of the September 28 atrocities be brought to justice and that the international community take concrete action to protect the civilian population in Guinea, remove the military from power and help the organization of the first free and fair presidential elections in the country’s history.
The organizers of the march, the September 28 Coalition for Justice and Democracy in Guinea – led by the Commission of the Guinea Forces Vives in the US, Alliance Guinea and the Amadou Diallo Foundation – delivered this memo to the Secretary General demanding that the international Commission of Inquiry investigate and prosecute the crimes to the fullest extent of the law, that the UN assist ECOWAS and the African Union in finding another mediator to replace or work with Blaise to *get the CNDD out of power,* and that the international community provide the technical, financial and political assistance necessary to provide an intervention force to shepherd Guinea through a transition to a democratically elected civil government. With the chaos in the military and uncertainties of Guinea’s rule worsening by the day – we need this assistance more now than ever.