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In the early morning of March 2, 2009, two months before his 70th birthday, President Vieria was assassinated in an attack by the militias of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. The militia claimed that Vieira was behind the assassination of its leader, Batista Tagme Na Wai, chief of staff of the Guinea-Bissau armed forces and an opponent of Vieira, who was killed the day before, this general denounced that a group of soldiers opened fire on his car in past January. The France-Presse agency quoted a doctor who participated in Vieira's autopsy as saying that he was ''"savagely beaten before several bullets were fired at him."'' According to British author Frederick Forsyth, who was in Bissau at the time of the attack, alleged a more detailed account of the assassination of the president. He claimed that during a lunch with the forensic pathologist investigating the case, he was informed that '''Vieira was beaten to death by soldiers wielding machetes at his mother-in-law's house.''' According to this account, '''Vieira survived an explosion and the collapse of the roof of the presidential villa and was then shot when he wounded out of the damaged building; however, he remained alive until he was taken to his mother-in-law's house and beaten and shot to death.''' Forsyth attributed the bloody events to mutual hatred between Vieira and Tagme Na Waie, and characterized them both as violent people.
In the early morning of March 2, 2009, two months before his 70th birthday, President Vieria was assassinated in an attack by the militias of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde. The militia claimed that Vieira was behind the assassination of its leader, Batista Tagme Na Wai, chief of staff of the Guinea-Bissau armed forces and an opponent of Vieira, who was killed the day before, this general denounced that a group of soldiers opened fire on his car in past January. The France-Presse agency quoted a doctor who participated in Vieira's autopsy as saying that he was ''"savagely beaten before several bullets were fired at him."'' According to British author Frederick Forsyth, who was in Bissau at the time of the attack, alleged a more detailed account of the assassination of the president. He claimed that during a lunch with the forensic pathologist investigating the case, he was informed that '''Vieira was beaten to death by soldiers wielding machetes at his mother-in-law's house.''' According to this account, '''Vieira survived an explosion and the collapse of the roof of the presidential villa and was then shot when he wounded out of the damaged building; however, he remained alive until he was taken to his mother-in-law's house and beaten and shot to death.''' Forsyth attributed the bloody events to mutual hatred between Vieira and Tagme Na Waie, and characterized them both as violent people.


The army denied that Vieira's murder represented a kind of coup d'état and said that they would follow the constitutional order, the president of the National People's Assembly, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimundo_Pereira Raimundo Pereira] would succeed Vieira. Colonel Tcham Na Man, born in February 1953, was identified as one of the perpetrators of the assassination of the Bisaoguinean president, he affirmed that he was savagely tortured by the president's regime and that he harbored a deep hatred for Vieira. General [[Tcham Na Man]] was one of the notable victims of his regime, whose arms were broken in prison by torture and he had never forgiven Vieira. He participated in his assassination in retaliation for the methods of his former regime, so in March 2009 he had no difficulty joining a group of soldiers from the Mansoa Battalion led by António Indjai, who invaded the residence of the then President of the Republic, in revenge for the death of General Batista Tagme Na Waie, who days earlier had bombed the Guinean Army's headquarters.
The army denied that Vieira's murder represented a kind of coup d'état and said that they would follow the constitutional order, the president of the National People's Assembly, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raimundo_Pereira Raimundo Pereira] would succeed Vieira. Colonel Tcham Na Man, born in February 1953, was identified as one of the perpetrators of the assassination of the Bisaoguinean president, he affirmed that he was savagely tortured by the president's regime and that he harbored a deep hatred for Vieira. General [[Tcham Na Man]] was one of the notable victims of his regime, whose arms were broken in prison by torture and he had never forgiven Vieira. He participated in his assassination in retaliation for the methods of his former regime.


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