Survivors of Guinea stadium massacre recount horrors as trial unfolds

Survivors who were beaten and raped during a massacre in a stadium in Guinea in 2009 are hoping to finally see justice and let the world know the pain they have been carrying as the trial of 11 suspects unfolds in the West African nation.

More than 150 people were trampled, clubbed or shot dead on September 28, 2009, when a demonstration against Guinea’s then military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara was brutally repressed. Hundreds survived with injuries and trauma.

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