2023-05-02 17:01:22
After a week of interruption, due to difficulties in catering for the accused and the magistrates (see your previous issue), the hearings resumed this Tuesday, May 2 at the Dixinn court of first instance. At the helm, Oumar Dioubaté, a doctor, demands the truth about the disappearance of his mother, following the massacre of September 28, 2009.
Did Oumar Dioubaté foresee what awaited his mother at the Stade du 28 Septembre? The young doctor who was, on September 28, 2009, on duty in a clinic in Enco 5, had done everything to dissuade his mother from going to the place of the demonstration. In vain. “I am not your daughter”, he was retorted by the latter, widowed since 1996 and mother of four children. Then an activist and leader of the Rally of the People of Guinea, the former party in power under Alpha Condé, Fanta Condé (that’s her name) went to the Stadium with one of her friends named M’ Balu. Oumar Dioubaté, who had no choice but to accompany his mother to the side of the road, will never see her alive again.
Today, he only has a photo of her, lying in rubbish (abandoned protesters’ shoes and iron bars), partially covered by a loincloth, her right arm “broken at three levels” (simply blurred ) and swollen. Despite his hidden face, the orphan is convinced that it is the corpse of the one who gave birth to him. To convince the court, he took other portraits of Fanta Condé. A simple formality, one would be tempted to say: how could one not recognize his mother, even among a thousand other people?
Between the day of the massacre and that of the restitution of the bodies four days later, at the Great Fayçal Mosque, Oumar Dioubaté had traveled all over Conakry to look for his mother. At the CHU Donka morgue, he found a mixed security system (police and gendarmerie) preventing all access. Inside, where he was only able to enter thanks to his doctor’s coat, a red beret soldier watches over him, who immediately sends him away. “He told me to go back and wait for a statement to be published announcing the return of the bodies,” recalls Oumar Dioubaté. Apparently, the body of Fanta Condé was at the other morgue of the CHU Ignace Deen.
Oumar Dioubaté confirmed by a witness
It is on the esplanade of the Great Mosque that he will therefore discover that his mother is dead. Fanta Condé will be buried by her family without an autopsy, like so many others. Those who had found theirs were also considered the luckiest in view of the large number of missing persons. “I demand that justice be done and that we be compensated,” claims Oumar Dioubaté, whose hearing was cut short. The latter gave way to Alpha Boubacar Diallo, another victim, a taxi driver. The latter testifies to what he saw and experienced at the Stadium on September 28, 2009.
“I remember the body of Oumar Dioubaté’s mother. Excuse me, that wasn’t a pretty sight. It is fact that his arm was broken three times and swollen. It was I who shot him”, testifies Alpha Boubacar Diallo who participated in the collection of several bodies. He must have blended in with the elements of the Red Cross, to get out of the claws of the men in uniform who threatened to “exterminate us” afterwards. After hearing his story, a nurse from the CHU Ignace Deen would have advised Alpha Boubacar Diallo to seek treatment elsewhere, before the perpetrators of the abuses found him. Wounded in the left cheek and hip by a knife and by a “black and tattooed” soldier, he obeyed the finger and the eye, being treated in a clinic in Sangoyah (municipality of Matoto).
The testimony of Alpha Boubacar Diallo also overwhelms elements dressed in sports jerseys designated as being Kaléyah recruits and who would have participated in the massacre. He and his group were searched by the latter who subsequently opened the Stadium and encouraged the demonstrators to rush in “crying victory!” victoire ! “. Political leader Bah Oury had, during his testimony at the bar, compared the Stadium to “a mousetrap”. A way of saying that the 2009 massacre was planned by the junta of Moussa Dadis Camara.
Diawo Labboyah Barry
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