former president Yahya Jammeh.
Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will hold hearings at its current session, which began on February 22, 2021, on the 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants, including about 44 Ghanaians.
It was the largest loss of life during the rule of former president Yahya Jammeh. About 9 Nigerians, 2 Togolese, 44 Ghanaians, and nationals of Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia and Senegal are believed to have been killed over several days in July 2005. Among those scheduled to testify is Martin Kyere of Ghana, the sole known survivor.
Previous official attempts to investigate the massacre have been stymied or flawed. Ghana attempted to investigate the killings in 2005 and 2006, but was blocked by the then-Jammeh government.
(FILES) This file photo taken on March 28, 2014 shows President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia attending the 44th summit of the 15-nation west African bloc ECOWAS at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Foundation in Yamoussoukro. Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh said on December 9, 2016 he would not recognise the results of December 1 elections and called for fresh polls, a week after he conceded defeat. “In the same way that I accepted the results faithfully believing that the Independent Electoral Commission was independent and honest and reliable, I hereby reject the results in totality,” he said in a statement broadcast on state television. br ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP
The Ghanaian sole known survivor in the 2005 Gambia massacre, Martin Kyere is scheduled to testify at the current session of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC).
The hearings on the 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants, including about 44 Ghanaians went on a break but resumed on February 22.
Said to be the largest loss of life during the rule of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, about nine Nigerians, two Togolese, 44 Ghanaians, and nationals of Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia and Senegal were believed to have been killed over several days in July 2005.
Among those scheduled to testify at the current session of the commission is Martin Kyere of Ghana, the sole known survivor.