Dakar - A United Nations commission of inquiry into a massacre in Guinea in which scores of opposition supporters were killed met the country's prime minister and members of the ruling military junta on Thursday.
Guinean officials said the three commission members, led by Algerian Mohamed Bedjaoui, were received by Kabine Komara, the premier appointed by the military junta after it took power last year.
They also met Construction Minister Boubacar Barry, Justice Minister Siba Lohalamou and other government officials.
The investigators were then due to meet junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara at the military camp Alpha Yaya Diallo, which is the headquarters of the junta.
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Guinea has been ruled by the military since December 23, when Camara seized power after the death of dictator Lansana Conte, who had led the country since 1984.
The three-member UN commission, whose other members are Francoise Kayiramirwa from Burundi and Pramila Patten from Mauritius, is probing a massacre of opposition supporters on September 28 in Conakry.
They will stay in Guinea until December 4.
Scores of demonstrators were killed in Conakry's biggest stadium as they gathered to protest Camara's plans to run in a presidential election he had slated for January.
The military junta said 56 people were killed and 934 were injured. Human Rights Watch said the attack on the protesters was organised and premeditated, and put the death toll at 157. The United Nations believes 150 were killed.
The commission of inquiry was approved in October by the UN Security Council. Its secretariat arrived in Conakry on November 15. - AFP
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