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Fresh violence flares in Guinea

GUINEA: Guinea was in the grips of deadly violence after the naming of opposition leader Alpha Conde as the winner of the first free Presidential election and his rival charged authorities with brutality.

Several observers condemned the security forces for excessive force as the post-election violence claimed two more lives on Tuesday, bringing to four the number of deaths in two days.

Dozens more were injured in an atmosphere fraught with tension over the results of the November 7 election. Conde won the run-off poll with 52.52 percent of the votes but his rival Cellou Dalein Diallo, who scored 47.48 percent, maintains he is the rightful victor, claiming massive voting fraud.

The former prime minister has appealed to the Supreme Court, which must confirm the election result.

As Muslims marked the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, Conde went on a thank-you tour, greeting singing and cheering crowds in three Conakry suburbs where he had topped the polls. Yet the atmosphere in Diallo strongholds remained tense after violent clashes. Diallo accused security forces of “savage brutality” against his supporters and members of his Fulani ethnic group.

“I launched an appeal for calm (on Monday night) to show that peace and security don’t have a price,” he told AFP and French international radio.

“But security forces continued to murder and repress with savage brutality.”

He accused security forces of having been “trained to attack one ethnic group (the Fulani) and supporters of Cellou and his allies.” Conde is a member of the Malinke ethnic group.

Diallo urged transition president General Sekouba Konate to “ask security forces to stop killing our people, taking them from their homes, imprisoning them.”

Washington also appealed for calm.

“We encourage both Dr Conde and Mr Diallo to urge their supporters to remain calm and allow the court to evaluate any irregularities,” US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters.

A police source said a soldier killed a man in Conakry on Tuesday. “There was a dispute between them, the man tried to escape and the soldier shot him in the neck,” the source said.

In Pita, central Guinea, one man was killed and 14 injured when Diallo’s supporters looted two houses and a neighbour belonging to the rival camp opened fire on them, a Red Cross official said.

Witnesses from Middle Guinea said soldiers had killed a man, shooting and wounding several other people. The fourth victim died in clashes between Diallo supporters and police in Conakry before results were released. Conakry, Wednesday, AFP

 

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