Guinea’s most wished fugitive, a former senior army officer convicted of crimes in opposition to humanity, was extradited from neighboring Liberia, the Guinean minister of justice stated Thursday
CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s most wished fugitive, a former senior army officer convicted of crimes in opposition to humanity over a 2009 stadium bloodbath, has been extradited from neighboring Liberia, officers stated Thursday.
Former Col. Claude Pivi had been on the run following a high-profile jail escape in November, earlier than he was arrested in Liberia on Tuesday, Yaya Kairaba Kaba, Guinea’s minister of justice, instructed reporters.
Pivi was a henchmen of former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara, who dominated the West African nation from 2008 to 2010. He had been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for crimes in opposition to humanity over his involvement within the stadium bloodbath. At the least 157 individuals had been killed and dozens of girls raped in that bloodbath in 2009.
The then-military chief had staged a coup the earlier 12 months and on Sept. 28, 2009, demonstrators on the stadium had been protesting Camara’s plans to run for president when troopers opened hearth on them.
The junta on the time stated “uncontrolled” parts of the military had carried out the rapes and killings. However Camara’s high aides had been on the stadium and did nothing to cease the bloodbath, a Human Rights Watch report stated.
Most of the victims within the stadium had been shot, crushed or knifed to dying whereas a few of the girls had been dragged out from hiding and gang-raped by uniformed males over a number of days, witnesses have stated.
