A huge Guinea massacre: several bodies found missing.

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More than 100 people were killed when the Guinean soldiers open fired at the people protesting in a stadium on September 28 in the capital city of Conakry. But the strange thing is that several bodies of the protesters killed during the firing were missing, their relatives reported.

Some of the dead bodies were taken by the army officials from the hospital morgues since the tragic incident on 28 September. Some witnesses have reportedly seen the army people take the bodies from the morgue. Mohamed Bahn who lost his 19 year old son in the killing said “I saw my son lying in the morgue. I touched his body,But since that day, I haven’t seen him. His body is with the government.”

Since the death of the president last December, the military rule has been implemented soon after his death. The military government is claiming only 57 people were killed and the death bodies were released shortly after the massacre. And they have said most of the people were killed because of the stampede inside the stadium were they were protesting and not because of the firing.

But on Thursday, Watch a New York based human activist group said the Guinean army is trying to cover their military attack on the innocent protesters.It has been estimated that the hospital records show that more than 1000 people were admitted to the hospital. This human right activist have found strong evidence against the military government who are engaged in hiding their crime and wrongly interpreting the number killed.

A military camp was arranging a mass grave burial, said some witnesses. “We know that bodies were removed by the military from the stadium and from the morgues. They had to have been taken someplace, so it’s likely that they ended up in mass graves,” Corinne Dufka, a senior HRW researcher, said.

Some of the witness have said that several hundreds of army men entered the stadium and stood near the near exist. They fist fired tear gas causing panic and then started firing at the crowd from all different directions.”Witnesses described how the panicked demonstrators were gunned down as they attempted to scale the stadium wall; shot point blank after being caught hiding in tunnels, bathrooms, and under seats; and mowed down after being baited by disingenuous soldiers offering safe passage,” the witnesses said. But The military government is denying any such claim.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on Guinea after the massacre and the United Nations are investigating the whole incident.

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