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Guinea court awaits verdict on massacre trial

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Moussa Dadis Camara accused of violent crackdown on protesters in September 2009

A long-awaited verdict is due to be delivered on Wednesday by a court in Conakry, capital of Guinea, in a historic trial over a massacre and mass rape in September 2009, despite impending protests and an ongoing lawyers’ strike in the West African state.

Former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara stands accused with 10 others of ordering a crackdown on thousands of unarmed protesters who were aggrieved that he had decided to stand for election the following year.

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