Fifteen years after the carnage of September 28, 2009, which left more than 150 dead and hundreds injured during a peaceful demonstration at the September 28 Stadium, General Sékouba Konaté is rekindling the flames of a still-unresolved case. In an exclusive interview with Vox Africa, the former president of Guinea's transitional government (2009-2010), nicknamed "the Tiger," did not mince his words: he is ready to face Moussa Dadis Camara, the former head of the military junta, before the International Criminal Court (ICC). This statement rekindles the debate on justice and reconciliation, while the appeal judgment in the national trial is still dragging its feet.

Konaté, who succeeded Dadis Camara as president after the assassination attempt on his life in December 2009, is blunt. "Even if President [Mamadi] Doumbouya granted him a presidential pardon, that's not bad. But I would like the ICC to take up this issue again. Let's meet there. We'll see who stays and who leaves," he says, his tone charged with defiance. Absent from Conakry at the time of the events – “more than 1,000 km from the capital,” he swears – he accuses Dadis of having orchestrated the massacre and of having lied under oath during the Guinean trial, which opened in 2022 and ended in July 2024 with sentences of ten to twenty years for several co-accused, including the former head of the junta, acquitted at first instance but whose appeal is pending. “He was the one who gave the orders,” insists Konaté, pointing the finger at Dadis for having “tried to sully [his] honor” by designating him as an accomplice during the hearings.

A mutual accusation: in 2022, Dadis had already turned the trial against Konaté and former President Alpha Condé, accusing them of having mounted a "plot" to remove him from office. Konaté, who had already filed a list of alleged instigators with the ICC in 2014 – including members of the CNDD, Dadis's junta – reaffirms his determination: "As long as he doesn't tell the truth, we would like the ICC to take over this case. Between him and me, nothing is over. It's only just beginning. We are going to harass the ICC to get it to take over this case."

Despite the pardon granted by Transitional President Mamadi Doumbouya in 2023, which allowed Dadis to return from Burkina Faso and avoided extradition, Konaté dismisses the idea of reconciliation without truth. "Our children are alive, they must know the truth. He is the one who must reestablish it before history. The president has reconciled us, certainly, but who went to court to lie about me?" His words resonate like a call to the victims and the international community: could the ICC, which had classified the events as "crimes against humanity" in 2010, reopen the case?

Associations such as Avipa (Association of Victims, Parents and Friends) and FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) are closely monitoring these statements, hoping for a judicial breakthrough. The general, who now lives in the United States, concludes on an implacable note: "Wherever he is, let him know that the fight will continue and that this problem will go all the way to the ICC." A legal and moral battle that, far from being over, could well transcend Guinea's borders and expose the flaws in a transition haunted by its bloody past.