Stadium massacre carried out under orders, says Camara's would-be assassin

"Toumba" Sidiki Diakité, the military officer who tried to shoot dead Guinea's military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara, says he is ready to face an international enquiry into September's massacre at a stadium in Conakry. The military officer, who is now on the run, claims that he was acting under orders when he led troops who killed over 150 opposition supporters.

Diakité calls on interim President Sekouba Konaté to pardon him for the 28 September killings because "we did go to the stadium but it was on the orders of the President [Dadis Camara] and even they know that".

The former top officer, who is now in hiding, says he is ready to face an international enquiry or the International Criminal Court but not a national investigation, which he claims will be "completely subject to the executive and have no credibility".

"The national enquiry wants to make me a scapegoat," he told RFI. "I have nothing to reproach myself with because the army, we are under orders ... I could never take a group of soldiers and do whatever I want. The army - it's a chain of command, it's orders."

Diakité welcomes Konaté's promise of reconciliation.

"He has said that 'our country has suffered too much', that we should have reconciliation," he says. "General Sékouba Konaté has only articulated the wish of the Guinean people."

But at present, Diakité claims that his family is being persecuted. His 60-year-old father, a former army colonel, is in detention after being arrested in December.

"I would like to point out that the crime is a personal act and that my father ... served the Guinean army loyally," he says. "All my family is under threat. People are talking about reconciliation and the rule of law ... but I have no news of how my father is at the moment."