**Guinea’s military ruler was not responsible for the deaths of dozens of opposition protesters in September, an inquiry carried out for the junta says.**It blames instead the man accused of trying to kill him last December - Lt Aboubakar Toumba Diakite.
A previous UN inquiry accused military leader Capt Moussa Dadis Camara of responsibility for the killings.
He is currently in Burkina Faso, where he is recuperating after the alleged assassination attempt.
Human rights groups say that at least 157 activists were killed and dozens of women raped during a pro-democracy rally at football stadium on 28 September last year.
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Lt Diakite, in hiding since the shooting, has previously told French radio that he shot Capt Camara because he feared the military leader was trying to blame him for the massacre.
And prosecutor Siriman Kouyate, head of the Guinean commission of inquiry, laid the blame squarely on the renegade soldier.
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“Lt Toumba Diakite and a group of red berets from the presidential guard were responsible for the rapes, murders, injuries and mysterious disappearance of bodies,” he said.
Mr Kouyate said Lt Diakite should face justice because he had disobeyed orders that the army should stay in the barracks.
He added that Capt Camara was “responsible for nothing”.
“It has been established that the president did not go to the stadium.”
The Guinean commission said that 58 people had died at the stadium and another five in hospital, according to the AFP news agency.
The commission also called for an amnesty for the opposition leaders who called for the pro-democracy protest.
These include veteran opposition leader Jean-Marie Dore, who was last month sworn in as prime minister, tasked with steering the country towards an election in six months’ time.