Camara plans return - diplomat
2009-12-23 07:11
Rabat - Guinea's junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, hospitalised in Morocco after an aide shot him in the head, is getting better and plans to return home soon, a senior Guinean diplomat said on Tuesday.
"He is doing better and intends to return to Conakry as quickly as possible," Mamadouba Diabate, Guinea's ambassador to Morocco, said on Tuesday.
He "communicates regularly with the government in Conakry whenever the need arises", Diabate added.
Camara, the country's self-proclaimed president, was shot on December 3 by his aide de camp Lieutenant Aboubacar "Toumba" Sidiki Diakite, who is still on the run.
The ambassador declined to comment on French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's claims that Camara's return to Guinea could spark civil war.
"I hope that Mr Dadis Camara remains in his bed in Morocco and that he not return" to Guinea "because he would be capable of sparking a civil war", Kouchner told the French parliament on Tuesday.
The warning came after a UN panel said on Monday a massacre of opposition supporters by Guinean troops in September amounted to "crimes against humanity" and that the military rulers, including Camara, should be held responsible.
Camara and his military junta seized power on December 23, 2008, just hours after the death for longtime ruler Lansana Conte.
- SAPA