According to the opposition, two young people aged 16 and 19 were killed by confrontations between mobile groups and the police.
Mo12345lemonde with AFP
The ruling junta in Guinea threatened to ban the main political parties, Friday, February 17, after a call to demonstrate and unrest that killed two dead on Thursday in the suburbs of Conakry, according to the opposition. “Political and social organizations, the criminal responsibilities of which will be established afterwards of legal proceedings by the competent authorities will be applied to sanctions ranging from the suspension to the withdrawal of their approvals,” said the Minister of Territorial Administration, Mory Condé, in a message broadcast on national television.
A prohibition of these parties, already almost reduced to inaction, would be added to the prohibition of demonstrations decreed by the junta in 2022 and to the dissolution of a collective of defense of rights, the National Defense Front of the Constitution (FNDC). Three FNDC leaders are imprisoned and a certain number of political figures are held, targeted by judicial inquiries, or parts in exile.
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The suburbs of Conakry was the theater, Wednesday evening and Thursday, of repeated confrontations between mobile groups, launching stones and drawing barricades on the road, and gendarmes and police. Two young people aged 16 and 19 were shot, told AFP relatives and the FNDC. Their death was confirmed by Cellou Kansala Diallo, vice-mayor of Ratoma, a commune in the suburbs of Conakry. Abdoul Karim Bah told AFP that his 19 -year -old nephew, motorcycle taxi driver, died although not participating in disorders – a case often reported in this customary country of political violence. The FNDC spoke of two dead and 58 injured, some of which are shot.
The FNDC had called for a march to claim the release of its three officials and all the other prisoners detained for reasons, according to him politicians, as well as a rapid return of civilians in power. The main parties had joined the call for mobilization. The junta has deployed significant resources and prevented the march. Minister Mory Condé confirmed that the authorities had requisitioned the army and affirmed “the government’s determination to put these individuals out of state to harm these individuals [clashes] and to pursue the perpetrators and sponsors of these violence”. Mr. Condé reported 28 injured, including 20 police officers and gendarmes – including seven, seriously affected, were placed in intensive care -, but did not mention death.
Guinea has been directed since September 2021 by a junta who took power thanks to a putsch. The major parties refuse dialogue with the junta on the terms and the course of a return of civilians in power under the conditions set by the authorities.
