Report: Guinea massacre 'crime against humanity'

[StarfarerBill]

Source: Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. investigators say there is sufficient reason to believe that Guinea's wounded junta leader is directly responsible for the mass killings and rapes of protesters in September, which they consider crimes against humanity, a U.N. diplomat said Monday.

The U.N. investigators also concluded that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that junta leader Capt. Moussa 'Dadis' Camara, the army officer who shot him in a dispute Dec. 3, and Guinea's anti-drug chief bear "individual criminal responsibility" for the events of Sept. 28 and the following days, the diplomat said.

The 60-page report, in French, was transmitted to the U.N. Security Council, Guinea's government, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States this weekend. Its contents were first reported by Le Monde, the French daily newspaper.

On Sept. 28, soldiers loyal to Camara sealed off the exits to the national soccer stadium where tens of thousands of protesters had gathered to demand an end to military rule. Troops entered and fired their assault rifles, spraying bullets into the unarmed crowd, survivors have said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_un_guinea

[stray cat]

1. Should we tell him to give peace a chance and war is not the answer?

The peaceful response on our part is to tell them shame on you and stay out of it.

[Odin2005]

2. And in other news, water is wet.

[Goldstein1984]

3. We're not the world's police force, judge, jury and executioner.

And we can't afford to be.

Let the International Criminal Court handle this.

[AlphaCentauri]

4. What a barbaric way to kill people, do they have drones?

[Rage for Order]

5. Yes, exactly...

Because firing on a crowd of peaceful, unarmed protesters is exactly like firing into a crowd of armed militants hiding in the mountains

:eyes:

[AlphaCentauri]

6. Or people celebrating a wedding or children, right?

Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-air-raids-hit-mostly-women-and-children-1669282.html