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Guinea court sentences ex-dictator Camara to 20 years over 2009 stadium massacre

File photo of the opening of the trial for the 2009 football massacre taken in in Conakry, Guinea, September 28, 2022. © Souleymane Camara, Reuters

More than a decade after the brutal 2009 massacre and mass rapes of demonstrators at a Conakry football stadium shocked the world, a Guinean court on Wednesday sentenced former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara to 20 years in jail for crimes against humanity.

A Guinea court on Wednesday sentenced former junta leader Moussa “Dadis” Camara to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of crimes against humanity in the 2009 stadium massacre by the military that killed at least 157 people and left dozens of women raped.

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