Guinea’s most wished fugitive, a former senior navy officer convicted of crimes towards humanity, was extradited from neighboring Liberia, the Guinean minister of justice mentioned Thursday
CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea’s most wished fugitive, a former senior navy officer convicted of crimes towards humanity over a 2009 stadium bloodbath, has been extradited from neighboring Liberia, officers mentioned 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, informed 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 towards humanity over his involvement within the stadium bloodbath. At the very least 157 folks have been killed and dozens of ladies raped in that bloodbath in 2009.
The then-military chief had staged a coup the earlier yr and on Sept. 28, 2009, demonstrators on the stadium have been protesting Camara’s plans to run for president when troopers opened hearth on them.
The junta on the time mentioned “uncontrolled” parts of the military had carried out the rapes and killings. However Camara’s high aides have been on the stadium and did nothing to cease the bloodbath, a Human Rights Watch report mentioned.
Lots of the victims within the stadium have been shot, crushed or knifed to demise whereas a number of the girls have been dragged out from hiding and gang-raped by uniformed males over a number of days, witnesses have mentioned.