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Camp Boiro Memorial

Human Rights Violations
in the Popular and Revolutionary Republic of Guinea

Secret Executions

The Guinean authorities are reported to have undertaken mass secret executions of political detainees in 1971. Large numbers of prisoners, for the most part untried, were removed on the night of January 25, 1971, from various prisons throughout Guinea, and transported to secret places of execution. As many as several hundred prisoners were taken from their cells in Camp Boiro, and were never seen or heard of again It is reported that large numbers of prisoners held in Keme Bouraima Camp in Kindia and at the Alpha Yaya and Samory Camps in Conakry were also taken away for execution on the night of January 21, 1971.