MACENTA-The clashes with an ethnic flavor that broke out this Saturday, December 26, 2020, in the city of Macenta, in Forest Guinea have degenerated. At least seven deaths are already reported in the urban commune. The security forces who came from Guéckédou as reinforcements were unable to control the situation.
“There are 3 pickups that came from Guéckédou as reinforcements but they could not control the situation in the city. By the time it is there are already 7 dead. I myself stopped next to two corpses like that. There are shots. Towards Tokpata also there are people who wanted to go through there who were eliminated by overheated young people ”, explains witnesses.
In Dabanani in the city center the body of a young man lying on the ground was found. According to our information, traces of machete blows are visible on his body.
In the Dabanani district, the tension is still very high. The young people had machetes in hand. The two camps stare at each other in front of the gendarmerie. This is where the youngster was killed. On his body, traces of machete blows were found, “testified a civil society activist on the ground.
These clashes pit two indigenous communities (Manian and Toma). Each claims the paternity of the city. The inauguration of the house in the hall is at the origin of the violence, we learned.
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