U.S. Condemns Mass Killings and Rape in Guinea

Conakry, 07 Oct-(ANA)-The US has sent a senior diplomat Guinea to protest the mass killings and rapes in the country.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for “appropriate actions” against a military government that she said “cannot remain in power.”

“It was criminality of the greatest degree, and those who committed such acts should not be given any reason to expect that they will escape justice,” Mrs. Clinton told reporters in Washington.

The military seized power in December, and pressure has been rising as Captain Camara, 45, backed off a pledge not to run in this country’s presidential elections in January.

On Monday, William Fitzgerald, US deputy assistant secretary of state, met Captain Camara for two hours and told his host to pull out of  the presidential elections, a key opposition demand. (ANA)

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