Gambia Ex-President, Yahya Jammeh Linked To Murder Of Nine Nigerians, 50 Other Migrants
One of those men was Paul Omozemoje Enagameh of Nigeria, whose brother, Kehinde Enagameh, was among those killed, according to a Nigerian investigation carried out in 2008.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 12, 2021
Testimony before Gambia’s truth commission implicating then-president Yahya Jammeh in the summary execution in 2005 of about 59 West African migrants, including some nine Nigerians, should be followed by criminal accountability, a group, Human Rights Watch and Trial International has said.
From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses told the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) that migrants bound for Europe from Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, plus their Gambian contact, were held by Jammeh’s top lieutenants in the security services before being murdered by the “Junglers,” a notorious paramilitary
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Gambia: The story of a government-sanctioned massacre and its cover-up
11 March 2021By Mustapha K. Darboe, our correspondent in Banjul
After establishing that the July 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants was perpetrated by state authorities, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed the government’s cover-up that followed. No one from the entire security sector of the country was spared.
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