Guinean authorities must reveal the fate of all victims of abductions and enforced disappearances, including National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (Front national pour la défense de la Constitution – FNDC) activists Oumar Sylla, known as Foniké Mengué, and Mamadou Billo Bah, who were forcibly disappeared two years ago today.
In a joint statement, Amnesty International, the Coordination of Human Rights Organizations (Coordination des Organisations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme – CODDH) of Guinea and the West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) also called for the authorities to ensure those suspected to be responsible for the abductions and enforced disappearances are brought to justice and that the victims and their families obtain truth, justice and reparations.
We reiterate the extreme gravity of the crime of enforced disappearance, which no circumstances, however exceptional, can justify.
“The last two years have been agony for the families of Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah. There is no evidence that the Guinean authorities have carried out any investigation to find them although they have announced an investigation. We demand that their fate or whereabouts are revealed, as well as those of all victims of enforced disappearance in Guinea,” the human rights organizations said.
