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Army purge

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    Guinean President Lansana Conte has sacked armed forces chief of staff Colonel Oumar Soumah and 30 other officers in connection with a 1996 army mutiny, AFP reported on Friday. Soumah and 17 others were deemed guilty of high treason, while 13 others were sent on early retirement for committing “gross errors” during the mutiny, when Conte’s government was nearly overthrown. Some 60 people lost their lives in the mutiny, according to AFP.

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