One year after the massacre in Conakry's biggest stadium, none of the army officials suspected of taking part in the killings has been brought to justice.

On September 28, 2009, a peaceful rally organised by the opposition, was suppressed by junta troops. Hundreds of women became victims of sexual violence, over a thousand got injured and 157 people were killed.

Both the UN and the International Criminal Court (ICC) said the acts committed that day are crimes against humanity.

"I was raped"
However a report published Monday by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Guinean Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights (OGDH) recognise a "judicial stalemate in this drama."

"I was raped by I don't know how many people, because at one point I lost consciousness," 43-year-old Guinean Salematou Bangoura, a Treasury agent, told reporters.

"I was taken into a brothel, a villa belonging to a soldier where I spent several days. If I remember correctly, four days of hell."

Bury the massacre
According to the FIDH, "the junta initially wanted to bury this issue by setting up a national commission of enquiry entirely under its control."

The commission placed responsibility squarely on the shoulders of Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite, a close aide of junta chief Moussa Dadis Camara.

Diakite has been on the run for ten months after trying to kill Camara two months on from the massacre.

He claimed at the time he had shot him because he had been left to carry the blame for the events of September 28.

After surviving the gunshot wound to the head, Camara took up residence in Burkina Faso and was replaced in January by General Sekouba Konate, charged with leading the transition until the election of a civilian president.

Guinea is now awaiting a second election round date to be announced, after the planned September 19 poll was called off at the last minute due to logistical and technical problems.

source: Reuters