2024-10-03 13:45:24
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Mr Prime Minister,
I write these words to you today with a deep feeling of sadness, to remind you of your political commitments and your fight for the defense of human rights in our country, commitments that you have carried forcefully since the 90s. At that time, you were a determined activist, entering politics through human rights, with a structured speech responding to aspirations for justice and equity. However, today, many Guineans no longer recognize you.
Your speeches, once bringing hope for our fellow citizens, are now tinged with bitterness, inaudible, and too often insulting to your former comrades. I am thinking of figures like the late Doctor Thierno Madjou Sow, former president of the OGDH, Lamine Diallo, founding member of the UFDG, or Professor Alpha Sow founder of the UFD who also suggested in 1993 that you were a mole from General Lansana’s regime within the opposition.
Your support for the Alpha Conde regime after our return from exile in 2016 which sealed our rupture, confirms this accusation of treason by Professor Alpha Sow and his friends.
What happened?
Where is the man whose words inspired and galvanized crowds in search of freedom and fundamental rights?
Prime Minister, I urge you to remember.
Remember our numerous discussions on human rights violations in our country.
Remember our discussions on the excesses of authoritarian regimes, similar to the one you support today with worrying zeal.
Remember our unanimous opposition to the candidacy of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, which resulted in the tragic massacre of September 28, 2009, where women were raped, and hundreds of Guineans were killed or missing.
Don’t forget our fight against the repressive regime of Alpha Condé, responsible for the deaths of many young people, often the age of your own children, shot down for simply exercising their right to demonstrate.
Can you honestly erase these memories by supporting the regime of putschist Mamady Doumbouya with such ardor today? A regime that has exceeded all limits in terms of human rights violations?
Can you sleep with a clear conscience, knowing that these souls rest on the collective memory of our nation, and especially on yours, you who chaired the organization of the demonstrations of September 28, 2009?
What will these many women raped during the events of September 28, 2009, and the families of the hundreds of victims killed or missing, say? What will our compatriots in the forest region think, who will not understand that you refused to Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, what you accept today for Mamady Doumbouya?
Mr. Bah Oury, you risk becoming the political actor who will have disappointed the greatest number of Guineans, betraying the ideals for which we have all risked our lives.
There is still time to reconsider your positions.
There is still time to renounce your support for Mamady Doumbouya, a military leader who embodies everything we fought against together. If you give up this support, you will be able to look at your children and your wife with the dignity of a man who made the right choice at the crucial moment. Otherwise, you will have to answer, not only before God, but also before History, for this betrayal of the memory of all those Guineans who believed in you, and who sometimes risked their lives by taking to the streets. to your call as on September 28, 2009.
I will not conclude this letter without expressing the immense disappointment that I share with so many others. This disappointment is especially that of your fellow fighters, those who supported you for more than 30 years, and who, despite the trials, believed in your integrity. Today it all seems like disillusionment.
Mr. Bah Oury, there is still time to pull yourself together and return to the very essence of the fight that we led together and that we continue to wage, despite your absence. Our fight for justice, human rights, and the dignity of the Guinean people will not stop, whether you participate or not. This fight, which today seems betrayed by your actions, must not be reduced to an empty slogan or opportunistic political maneuvers.
Hoping for answers to these questions, not for me personally, but for all the victims of this long road to freedom, for their families, as well as for your former companions who, like me, feel betrayed.
As the proverb says so well: “No matter how hard you chase the natural, it always comes back at a gallop. »
I send you my sincere greetings.
Saliou Diallo
A former comrade in the struggle