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Guinea court jails ex-military leader Camara for crimes against humanity

Former Guinean leader Moussa Dadis Camara was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity at Guinea’s criminal court in Conakry, on July 31 [Abdoulaye Bella Diallo/AP Photo]

A court in Guinea has sentenced former military leader Moussa Dadis Camara to 20 years in jail for crimes against humanity.

Guinea’s criminal court announced its verdict on Wednesday after a two-year trial over the leader’s deadly suppression of an opposition rally at a stadium in the suburbs of the capital, Conakry, in 2009, which saw his forces kill at least 156 people and rape 109 women, according to a United Nations-mandated commission of inquiry.

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