He has healed the ruling military council in Guinea Musa Dadis Camara, less than a year from the prison sentence for 20 years with crimes against humanity associated with one of the worst massacres in the country.
A decree read on state television said that the amnesty was granted for health reasons.
In 2009, the forces under his leadership opened fire during a mass rally to return to civil rule, killing more than 150 people. Dozens of women were also raped.
Camara seized power when the president died long ago for a human Conte in 2008. He fled after an assassination attempt after a long period of the massacre, but he returned in 2022 to confront justice, and insisted that he was innocent.
Camara, 61, was almost an unknown army commander when he led the coup. He was convicted with seven of his military commanders in July 2024 after a 22 -month trial.
The amnesty comes in the wake of an announcement earlier this week that the current military government intends to pay compensation to the victims of the massacre – which the court ordered the Camara convicted.
According to JUSTICE Info, Web website reports on international justice, the estimated collapse of payments is:
- 173,000 dollars (134,000 pounds) – a victim of rape
- $ 115500 – for every death or disappearance
- $ 57,000 – for each looting
- 23,000 dollars – for each torture.
The massacre took place in September 2009, when tens of thousands gathered in a stadium in the capital, Conakry, to pressure Camara not to stand in presidential elections.
Many of them were shot, stabbed, hit or crushed into a stampede, as the security forces fired their tears and accused on the field. At least 109 girls and women were raped.
It is not clear what health problems facing Camara. “Everyone is happy. We thank the president.”
When Camara escaped from Guinea after he was shot in the head, he was treated for six weeks in Morocco before residing in Burkina Faso for 12 years.
His deputy continued to organize elections in 2010, which appeared to be a decade of civil rule, which brought Alpha Conde to power as a president.
He was overthrown in a coup in September 2021, following the protests against his third, controversial period.
