Here are the links relating to the human rights issues occuring in Guinea. The following stories are related to the September 28 2009 massacre in which 157 pro-democracy supporters were gunned down in the capital city of Dakar and scores of women raped. These people were in opposition to President Camara's refusal to opt out of a general election that had been set for January 2010. An assasination attempt was triggered in response.
(Dakar) - Guinea's military government should immediately release or bring specific charges against the human rights defender Mouctar Diallo, Human Rights Watch said today. He has been held by the military since November 26, 2009, on what appear to be politically motivated charges.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/12/03/guinea-free-or-charge-rights-defender?print
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was wounded in an attack on Thursday by his own soldiers, including the officer implicated in the September 28 killings of pro-democracy protesters.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20091203/tpl-uk-guinea-camara-81f3b62.html
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's ruling junta said order had been restored to the capital Conakry Friday, hours after soldiers shot and injured junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20091204/tpl-uk-guinea-81f3b62.html
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While reading through these articles I came to realize how biased the media publications can be. There is no way of knowing whether the implication of these articles are factual unless they are reported from the source or a key informant.For example, the first article presented by human rights watch seems to empahsize Diallo as a victim in the matter. Noting such things like:
ReplyDelete[Diallo, who suffers from diabetes has been unable to recieve medications from his wife since being detained]
Such comments seek to position Diallo as a pure victim in the matter, but whose to say what was actually said on that radio show.
The second and third article seems to also present bias, for example,they each begin with explaining Guinea as the world's largest exporter of alumminum ore bauxite and then go on to say that Captain Camara a junta military leader was attacked.
This discourse can be understood in two ways.
1. it works to educate the reader that Guinea is the world largest exporter of alumminum
2. It gives reason why the reader should care about human rights and political issues occuring in Guinea because it may have an impact on their social world.
One point--the capital city of Guinea is Conakry, which is where these abuses took place. Dakar is actually the capital of Senegal. The dateline for the news story is Dakar because that's where the reporters are based.
ReplyDeleteAs for your comments, Freelancehop, I agree that the media is often biased, but I don't think that there are many people who can plausibly claim that what went on in Guinea was above board. In this case, I think the media is doing a service by getting the word out to the world that there is some serious trouble brewing in a place that most people don't spend that much time thinking about.