Prepare for a serious crackdown in Guinea. On Monday a member of one of the disaffected factions of the country’s military shot President Moussa Dadis Camara, the leader of the junta that took power by coup eleven months ago, in a failed coup. The alleged assassin did not succeed in killing or seriously incapacitating the man who has been the focus of escalating discontent in recent weeks. Protests against Camara’s junta led to a violent response against protesters in September that resulted in the massacre of dozens. This frontal challenge will not go unchallenged. The next few days will be especially bad ones to have any association with anti-Camara sentiments.
