Guinea-Bissau: World's First Narco-State
Marco Vernaschi / Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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The soldiers who executed Vieira pose for a photograph. In an interview conducted a few hours after the assassination, the men described with chilling details how and why they killed him. Three days later, some of the soldiers died in mysterious circumstances, and their corpses were sent to their villages, in the region of Mansoa, to be buried.
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