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G/Bissau bars military leaders from leaving
Thursday, 30 December 2010 22:22
AFP - Two Guinea-Bissau military leaders suspected of involvement in the killing
of the former president will not be allowed to leave the country while investigations continue, a military official said Thursday.Admiral Jose Zamora Induta, the former military chief, and former intelligence head Colonel Samba Djalo have been ordered to stay in the country following their
release from prison last week, a source close to the military tribunal told AFP.The two men, detained since April, were released along with five officers held following a March 2009 bomb attack that killed the then armed forces chief, General Batista Tagme Na Wai.
Wai's assassination led to a revenge attack in which Guinea-Bissau's president Bernardo Joao Vieira died.
Induta's release came days after the European Commission in Brussels threatened to suspend some development aid as it called for "the end of illegal detentions and impunity" in Guinea-Bissau.
The EU has budgeted for some 120 million euros (157 million dollars) in aid for Bissau to 2013.
Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by coups since independence from Portugal in 1974 and instability has attracted South American drug cartels that use the country as a transit point to Europe.
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He was just like our then minister of defence (Maabali) A mandinka word as: Untoucheable, all the soldier know whom Iam refering to, that was why he survived for so long in the Bissau Army, but when the Boys realized that, he is a treat to the country that was when they pushed him aside and believe me or not, if they allow him to settle, Bissau will return to where it was !
In the service of SeneGamBissau I remain
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