Alpha Oumar Barry was a Guinea

Guinea

Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...

n politician, a member of the cabinet of President Ahmed Sékou Touré

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Ahmed Sékou Touré was an African political leader and President of Guinea from 1958 to his death in 1984...

 in the first Guinean republic, who was later arrested and died at Camp Boiro

Camp Boiro

Camp Boiro or Camp Mamadou Boiro is a defunct Guinean concentration camp within Conakry city.During the regime of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, thousands of political opponents were imprisoned at the camp....

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Alpha Oumar was born in 1921, and trained as a doctor in Bourdeaux

Bourdeaux

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, France

France

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. He was appointed chief medical officer in Kindia

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Alpha Oumar was appointed minister of state for Exchange in the cabinet announced on 19 June 1972.
He was also a member of the political bureau of the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG).

At a press conference on 2 August 1976, Sekou Toure announced the arrest in Conakry

Conakry

Conakry is the capital and largest city of Guinea. Conakry is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean and serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea with a 2009 population of 1,548,500...

 of several plotters, including Telli Diallo, Alpha Oumar Barry, Lamine Kouyaté and Alioune Dramé

Alioune Dramé

Alioune Dramé was a Guinean economist and politician. He served in the first council of the Politburo of the First Republic of Guinea as Minister of Finance from 1957.In this role, he signed the first bank notes of the republic....

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Both Alpha Oumar and Alioune Dramé had been childhood friends of Telli Diallo.
After his arrest, the camp commandant Siaka Touré

Siaka Touré

Siaka Touré was the commandant of Camp Boiro in Conakry, Guinea during the regime of president Ahmed Sékou Touré. During this period, many of the president's political opponents died in the camp....

transmitted a series of messages to Alpha Oumar from President Touré demanding that he confess to being a plotter to save the face of the revolution. Eventually Alpha Oumar gave in and made a confession.
On 12 February 1977, Alpha Oumar and others were placed on a "black diet", meaning they were deprived of food and water.
He died on 26 February 1977.