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image captionFatou Jallow gave evidence to the commission in 2019 about how she was sexually assaulted by President Yahya Jammeh
In our series of letters from African journalists, Sierra Leonean-Gambian writer Ade Daramy reflects on the impact that testimony at Gambia s truth commission is having.
Gambians are being forced to re-evaluate their self-image as a relaxed, peace-loving people, who live on what is marketed to tourists as the Smiling Coast .
Revelation by revelation they are learning the shocking truth about what really happened during the 22-year rule of President Yahya Jammeh, which ended with him fleeing the country in 2017.