CONAKRY, Guinea — One particular person was killed in Guinea’s capital throughout protests in opposition to gasoline worth hikes within the first demonstrations for the reason that junta seized management in September, in accordance with opposition leaders and witnesses.
The younger man was shot lifeless Wednesday at dusk in Hamdallaye, a suburb of Conakry thought of to be a stronghold of opposition events and critics of the junta.
“We demonstrated all day in opposition to the announcement by the Ministry of Economic system and Finance of a rise within the worth of a liter of gasoline,” Amadou Diouma Diallo, one of many protesters, informed The Related Press. “Through the day, the riot police used tear gasoline to disperse us. There was calm. Then at evening, the demonstrations resumed. The police got here to fireplace warning photographs.” That’s when the younger man was shot, he stated.
“I don’t know who fired, however I noticed the teenager fall within the neighborhood. We known as the Pink Cross to come back and get the physique, however they couldn’t come,” Idrissa Kanté, one other protester, stated.
The Nationwide Entrance for the Protection of the Structure, a coalition of civil society teams that oppose the junta, accused the protection and safety forces of utilizing reside ammunition.
“The bloody repression of the demonstrations by the protection and safety forces contrasts with Col. Doumbouya’s takeover speech, during which he castigated the (earlier authorities’s) killings of demonstrators and who had pledged to not commit the identical as his predecessors,” the teams wrote in an announcement.
The junta has not but made any assertion concerning the loss of life.
Guinea’s former president Alpha Conde was overthrown in a coup d’etat in September by a navy junta that now leads the West African nation. The top of the navy junta, Col. Mamady Doumbouya, stated {that a} transition to elections and a return to civilian, democratic rule may take greater than three years.
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