Former Guinean President Moussa Dadis Camara has arrived in Morocco’s capital, Rabat, for medical treatment after a deterioration in his health. This came after he received a presidential pardon at the end of March from transitional President Mamadi Doumbouya, according to local media in the African country.
The same sources reported that the Guinean authorities permitted the former military council leader, who seized power in the country in December 2008, to travel, despite his name being linked to incidents of violence that resulted in the deaths of more than 150 citizens in late December 2009.
Camara came to power in Guinea following a military coup carried out by a group of officers calling themselves the “National Council for Democracy and Development,” just after the announcement of the death of former President Lansana Conté after a long illness.
The Guinean opposition has harshly criticized Camara following accusations of responsibility for a “massacre” that occurred at the Conakry stadium, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries in 2009, the same year that he survived an assassination attempt that left him seriously injured and necessitated his medical transfer to Morocco, before he was exiled to Burkina Faso, returning to his country in 2021.
Two years later, Moussa Dadis Camara appeared before his country’s judiciary, which sentenced him to 20 years in prison for committing “crimes against humanity,” before he was pardoned by the current president Mamadi Doumbouya, who also assumed power following a military coup against former President Alpha Condé, who was elected for a third term that hastened the Guinean military’s intervention to end his rule.
