Amadou Oury Bah, president of the organizing committee of the demonstration of September 28, 2009 appeared for the second time at the bar of the criminal court of Dixinn relocated to Kaloum. On March 21, he faced Moussa Dadis Camara’s lawyers who tried to deconstruct his statements, according to which it was the CNDD president’s candidacy that caused the September 28 demonstration.
Bah Oury said that after the massacre, Dadis Camara did nothing to punish the perpetrators. In any case, not enough. He said he has nothing against the then junta leader, but since he held the presidential office, it goes without saying that he assumes. For more than two hours, Maître Jean-Baptiste Jocamey Haba tried to demonstrate that his client Dadis could not be responsible for the massacre. First, he argued that from the start, demonstrators erected roadblocks, attacked a police station to seize weapons. Bah Oury replied formally that no roadblock was erected in Conakry that day. He concedes an incident at the Bellevue police station, but he “does not think that a civilian could take a weapon, go to the stadium where trained soldiers were, it would be suicide”. He maintains that the instruction was clear: a peaceful demonstration.
Master Haba to retort that President Dadis Camara had immediately taken measures to locate the responsibilities. In particular the establishment of a national commission of inquiry, an international commission of inquiry, the establishment of a crisis committee, providing the means for the care of the injured, etc. Even the conclusions of the national investigation report are not in line with reality. The lawyer asks: Do you know that the president immediately set up a national commission of inquiry? “That’s not what counts, it’s the end. The fact of saying in the report that it was Tiégboro who saved all the leaders is not the reality”.
Maître Pépé Koulémou, another defense lawyer, returns to the charge to ask almost the same questions as his previous colleague. By wanting to make the Forces vives responsible for the massacre. Bah Oury’s answer is unequivocal: “The Forces Vives Nationales were the victims of a plot which led to the massacre of peaceful citizens. We organized a demonstration, during this time, others were hiding to organize the massacre (…)”
The lawyer concludes that the policies must “make sure to respect the authority of the State”. Bah Oury replied, curtly: “The authority of the State is subject to the sovereignty of the people. »
Ibn Adama