Aljazeera is next well see you later. I mean. Ben jules International Airport january two thousand and seventeen stepping out of the black limousine is going to be as longtime president. As he walks down the tarmac on the president ial red carpet for the last time a small crowd of supporters gather unable to hold back their emotions. After twenty two years in power the man who said he would rule gambia for billions of years is now leaving the country forced into exile. They left but enough of the guns he had left when a single american he left one to sell the big chill and the women and development the hundred one the point but in boston to this one because he just. He had refused to accept election defeat and how to overpower west african heads of state and set off on a marathon month long negotiation dicky turns to get him to accept the results eventually they gave jimmy an ultimatum either he steps down or seven thousand soldiers from the region steps into gambia to take back control of the country. This is the moment the troops and toured the capital the crowd chants john may go. A final goodbye. For many a moment of victory the moment has decided. This week to talk to aljazeera men and women that stood up to his rule and brought an end to his regime. This is twenty nine year old lieutenant in december. Just after he took power. He then promised to restore democracy and bring in. Well yeah. Hes just hes been on. With what he. Calls. To. Many. But he never returned to. The swap his army uniform for white traditional and changed his tune. He ruled the country with an iron fist president critics and political opponents human rights organizations accused him and his Security Forces of torture and enforced disappearances. In april two thousand and sixteen members of the opposition held a small peaceful march calling for Electoral Reforms ahead of the december president ial election or. Among the protesters was much much the same thanks father. To every. Everybody else. In the gambit to say we need a proper Electoral Reform at least make it better this make it suitable for all of us so we can have a level field so we could all play so but then yeah a general was one dictator that doesnt want anybody to say this is what i want and you get away with it till you were a daughter of someone that is politically active under dangerous circumstances you knew that that. Holding rallies like you were dangerous. What you worried for your father. I was always worried like i once told him why dont you just leave them here why dont you go to senegal why dont you that was in two thousand and thirteen when he was a rest then he was taken to board this strike that was like right now you year you have escaped from least people and theyre told him in his face that we were going to kill you if we free arrest you again so i said why dont you just go away he said hes not going anywhere said hes got me and said hes going to fight to end dictatorship and gambia he was taken to the and i hit. The secret. Police though sterling you walked with gemma to spy on people and then he was interviewed he was there we heard photographs were taken of them and he was asked questions and then after the questions was i didnt know i didnt get to listen to the audio but the police have it so theres an audio recording of the interrogation of your father that was made by the Security Service exactly they did that not only with him but with all the others that they had arrested and then after doing that day he had to take them to these rooms where these men have to come with masks over their head and then be had to torture him they had to beat him to the point that he couldnt just move or say anything again and then he couldnt survive. Challenging the security. Chief to distribute the testing to. This have the attention given enough is enough. To go to find him to stop. This video appeared on the Security Forces went after them. She fled to neighboring senegal. Republic position. You stood up in this in this road and and spoke out publicly against you know jenny risking your own life as well why did you do that i mean i i i went to a point where i cared no more i i from that day i wanted to be my father because he knew gemma was still here but he had to go out and say we want proper Electoral Reform he wanted a Better Future for me and the rest of my family for the rest of the gambians so who would i be if i had to keep quiet i felt that is the only thing i had to do for my father left now i had to speak up for him i wanted justice my father i wanted gemma to just go i i was i was thinking of what i had gone through within that week and imagining another gambian family going through that was like it was unimaginable so i made sure i did something to stop another family from losing their father like i did i made sure that i stopped another family from leaving like a did so i had to speak up i had to Say Something to make sure everybody heard what i was saying to make sure people went out on the first of december to vote him out to make sure the world knows what hes doing to tell us about this rule of this incredible role in this in this. Overthrowing i jam it seems that the social media whats facebook mobile phones played a crucial role that really changed the history of this country social media was a great tool in the president barroso is that he says read and have access to the radio the t. V. When we had to go on something that is a correlation team but then just knowing when the meetings of the coalitions were going to be it was up on facebook it was in the whats up so that people can go out right so all the other Networks LikeEven International calls were blocked at some point and everybody knew that. But we facebook and then and whats. The before they blocked it it was like it was too late information was going out already so everybody was grateful for social media being there because without it we wouldnt know how to communicate how to talk to anybody so it is one thing that helped change the dictatorship that was in gambia it was one tool that many of us used because personally i have over five six thousand friends and people following me on facebook so most of those people are in gambia so writing on facebook they would read it having to do live video they would have to watch it so those are the things that we used so i would look for someone else who also has more than five thousand friends or so we would just be like that if youre that much you need to speak up and we had prominent people gambians and young people will listen to what of this missing we need out and we need the people of the gambia to dig up the responsibility unfortunately i dont know what happened it was just a miracle calling someone in gambhir by then was risky because they could arrest you or they could put youre in trouble so you try to avoid but then with whats up on facebook being secure a little especially what you could send people messages you could tell them i had my list of friends and i sent them to send the messages they knew what i was going through they knew what happened in the gambia so with some people just knowing me made them dislike jimmy for what he was doing there like the government population those scared to say anything against germany just i dont know that things change they change overnight and everybody was like you know what i dont care whatever happens this is my right and also the Company Period was very important because people were given immunity you were not going to be tracked if you say anything so people use that to come pay to put on the shirts of the Coalition Just reach out to their families personally people had to hold their families back home to say. 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Throughout my life up to that very force. I was not used to have a magazine it was not my. I was not in the story it saudi very far as the eye to give me to. My teaching thats where i start to get really. Though i was not having diarrhea but i was. You know lets backtrack to to poor treatment you got what exactly happened in in the Treatment Center. The yeah germany hiv aids Treatment Center what was that your days like where the doctors do how do they treat you in the morning if you go do you still take your vital signs that to still be. Your high. You want to every day to see where you are losing weight or you are giving me you take. Your b. P. Or hitch. And the like. From. You start drinking. So it was it was a potion of some sort of almost a car full of different different from maybe what for me on my own view for me. Even if i see he mix in the medication i start vomiting. He would mix medicine and money makes you know pointed in the one meter. Source sometimes i just dont look at it and if i am drinking it i have to close all my eyes and hold my breath what does it taste like out or somewhere a bit very very bitter. From where im not easy to cause you can or if you remember the finale the hardest. It was not easy. How long did you take this herbal treatment for. It was from general to september almost nine months how did your health cope with the herbal medicine that gave you my habit it was because i was the weakest one of there. When i would there i just. Dropped out. I was dragged. Half know at the time i you know i was even people. Im this. Many people thing that im going to day there are. Many of you would think that im going to die because i was. What affect me was that as i said before i was not used to have a position where he helped by medical doctors by foreign nurses yes he was scared because then we have to be. Truly to take them from the clinic. And we have a medical doctor who was then by who was by then who was the director of may because he was the minister of how it. Was assisting him so that the cuban nurses. A certified medical doctor who is also the minister of health and me were all administering you this herbal medicine that jimmy said would cure for each of you needs you knew that this was not true it was not true and definitely. Then youre going to say and you could. I dont just say it is not true. And i guess take us in the hospital where your house so it is guided you. You see soldiers soldiers were in the medical facilities there we are. At anything sort of nobody come escape you are being treated against your will at any times you feel like you were in the eight others were getting picked yeah thats what i said before i said it was a tryout he was just do not try out to see red if you or it will not go on for. Me its not because after that i have to go back to the hospital i mean my before i go back to the hospital my city for my means is there was my city for automatic dropped. You know not for me i dont know for me i believe that. Here. Intel is adamant there is president ial. Thousands took to the streets calling for an end this is a regime. Normally apathetic about politics came out to vote in numbers. As polls closed the chairman of the Election Commission i enjoy i saw the numbers calling it. He was responsible for the final official tally on december first and news in giant announced that yeah johnnie had lost the election stunning. Youre the first. Thats. Made public. Tell us what went through your mind when you decided to announce that he was the loser of this president ial elections well i will just transmit to the will of the people. He never thought that. Through we lose the election he will talk he will be but for the tory. But also for me i feel that if the gamble to decide to see this is it i need to assess the will and times with the will and announce it to souls as they came in of course many people would say that the person who is in your position under your jam is rule is probably the one that has to to announce the results that yeah jamey wants well i dont want to go through the process again but it was difficult telling it was very very difficult i had undergone stress. Because there were moves really to get me to it in the resource and career youve had to endure this was how people of our good and the five years at which point did you realize that yeah jimmy had lost the elections im the last to know but because he knew he had lost. Before i announce all this was because im the last to know because it is always our quality any different to us and said by fox to me here but in the polling station there are party yes and there would. Form their respective offices to in the demo do the sort of the particular politician and this would be always call it and he knew really advance that he had lost and there were presumably to increase the number of votes in to continue. And i fish. What was his reaction when you refused where i was or was i was in seattle i was here but again. You ordered no the the following. In the evening he came out playing and i said that he was he had lost the election but when you saw the tally and you saw that he had lost you pick up your phone call the state house in all you. Know that he had lost. He knew you had lost him before and you you know lost because we. Call it it by his own people when he lost and thats the mood out there that they had made for me to discuss how did they put pressure on you how did. His people put pressure on you to change. The tone. But thats something i dont want to go through whether they do well they were. Heroes in here in the building of the Election Commission or how were they menacing or threatening you they were. What i consider. Did they threaten to kill you. So i can see you. And yet you stood up and stood up against them just. A little my life. I stood up. To the. At first john makes sept at the outcome and then changed his mind a week later calling for new elections west african heads of state tried to convince him to step down but he refused saying the elections were rigged against him. And yet this is what he said julie de camp. Thats also several of his approach is to regain full this product you cannot recall i left something and i wanted to go into the contest see how they let us out down in this country and then you know that that he thought isnt quite what the world is to. The Security Forces deployed on the streets looting outside the Election Commission. And fearing for his life and jai fled the country. They were coming they were going to kill us for sure when you say they you mean the security the gammons Security Forces i beg a bit about how me put out of what was their lives here i was what i was told this welcoming so i had to it was to presume to his ambassador that i was able to leave the country and when i went i was hoarse you can wonder was in production. To. Dismiss right of the president elect to left the country he was sworn in as the new head of state at the Gambian Embassy in senegal and a little seven thousand west african troops were deployed to the border. Fighter jets flew low over the capital. Under pressure jamie was forced into exile he left. In bengal stage and adam a barrel was once again sworn into office this time in front of his people. The horrors of johm his regime are now being. Political prisoners have been freed. The stories of those that suffered under his regime are now being told. This is a nation still reeling from twenty two years of one mans rule. The new government promises to set up a truth and reconciliation commission. So that the wounds of the past can finally here. Our marine loose the benefit of saddam people. See him border of our cars witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on aljazeera. The street is quiet the signal is given. Out its oh its safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty murders in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships and kept our children sometimes it caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight the parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking us to try to take the whole Gang Violence i lost myself looking a little door years ago i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards forced to be displaced by their governments and one nine hundred twenty three. It was very buggy greek and turkish villagers returned to their roots almost a century later. And reconnect with the past they thought theyd lost forever. People should be forced to move from delenn where they were born which are. The Great Population Exchange at this time on aljazeera. When the news breaks when people need to be heard it was to go as a bucket to good to use. The good of a library and the story needs to be turned these years largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy is iran has teams on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. And live news on air and on. The scene for us whether online what is a very new sound in yemen that piece is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. How the im doing with all of that with the current headlines on aljazeera at least twenty seven people have been killed in syrian and russian airstrikes in rebel held east and kolta there are also been reports of attacks involving chlorine gas and nake on two villages well this new offensive despite a u. N. Security Council Resolution calling for an immediate cease