The three-person United Nations Commission of Inquiry will look into the violent suppression of a pro-democracy demonstration in the national football stadium on 28 September.
"This was not firing to scare people away, this was meant to kill. People got hit by bullets, people got trampled, I leapt over bodies, bodies that were lying in pools of blood." Another man described seeing "hundreds of dead" and "thousands of people injured". "It is not an army of the people," he said. "This is an army that massacres." Women told stories of being raped and beaten by soldiers.
The junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, said he was not in complete control of the armed forces. He claimed that military command structures had been confused since independence from France in 1958 and said it was unfair to expect him to have brought matters under control in just a few months.
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