Cona-cry relied on Blaise’s so-called wisdom to resolve the Guinean crisis. For a while we deliberately closed our eyes to his former agenda: the assassination of Thomas Sankara and the silence surrounding the death of journalist Norbert Zongo, conflicts created and substantiated across West Africa from the time of Ivorian president Houphouët [Continue]
After reading the wire from Agence France Presse (AFP), I spent the whole night wondering how Blaise got to this proposal. I note that he proposes “ … A National Transition Council will be established for 10 months. It will be presided by a member of the junta, the CNDD, who will nominate a Prime [Continue]
Women of the Forces Vives’s forum -France section are organizing a protest march Saturday, November 7 in Paris. This march aims at: First, expressing their solidarity, once again, to the victims and especially to the women publicly raped and abused September 28 in Conakry. Second, requiring an action by the justice, for that not to [Continue]
The initial communiqué released today and available here from Human Rights Watch following their 10-day investigation into the events of September 28 in Conakry reveals that the atrocities were more brutal and widespread than many of us realized. Through several first-hand accounts, survivors and other eyewitnesses describe in detail the [Continue]
Once again history proves right to our organization. That one greeted with extreme suspicion the seizure of power by the military junta on December 28, 2008. The rules of life in the Guinean army are fundamentally different from those of the armies of neighboring countries. If discipline is the main strength of all armies, the [Continue]
1. A negotiation would be an insult to all those who have died. Today to negotiate with the junta would be to sully the memory of our assassinated heroes on this anniversary of the vote which led to the independence of our country, to dishonor our mothers who were raped by those animals unworthy of [Continue]
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