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Thousands Attend Funeral Of Slain Guinea-Bissau Presidential Candidate
8 June 2009
Bissau - Thousands of people attended the funeral Sunday of Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Baciro Dabo, who was killed by soldiers sent to arrest him over charges that he was part of a coup plot. Dabo and former defence minister Helder Proenca were killed Friday by troops trying to arrest them over government charges that they planned to oust interim president Raimundo Pereira and kill the military chief and prime minister. Their killings came just three months after President Joao Bernardo Vieira was killed by the army. Vieira's assassination on March 2 was thought to be a revenge attack a few hours after the military chief was killed in a bomb blast. The government said Dabo and Proenca were among nine coup plotters who wanted to topple Pereira and kill Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior and the acting military chief of staff, naval commander Jose Zamora Induta. Only the ministers of trade and youth were sent to Dabo's funeral at the capital's Muslim cemetery. Dabo, who was territorial minister, was a candidate in the June 28 elections. "The international community must put pressure on Guinea-Bissau to ensure a rule of law, to put an end to this cycle of violence," the head of Guinea-Bissau's human rights league, Luis Vaz Martins, told reporters at the funeral. Another mourner was Henrique Rosa, a former interim president from 2003-05, who is also a candidate in the June 28 presidential poll. In the wake of the violence, however, another presidential hopeful withdrew from the race on Saturday. Independent candidate Pedro Infanda admitted his family feared for his life. Guinea-Bissau has been wracked by coups and political unrest since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974. Representatives of the international community have called for the June 28 election date to remain. But campaigning, which was due to begin on Saturday, has been delayed indefinitely. In recent years the poor West African country has achieved notoriety as a transit point for the cocaine trade between South America and Europe, raising the stakes in power feuds between political and military leaders. - Sapa-AFP
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