Bloody trail leads to Guinea Bissau elections

June 25, 2009

Guinea-Bissau is quietly going through the motions of a presidential election campaign despite a recent spate of political assassinations. A candidate and a former defence minister were killed earlier this month. The vote itself follows the slaying of the country's longtime president, Joao Bernardo Vieira, in March, which came on the heels of the murder of the army chief.