Gambia Truth Commission: Darboe, the faithful silent agent of the NIA
9 February 2021By Mustapha K. Darboe, our correspondent in Banjul
With lot of expectations, a notorious member of a ‘Special Operations Unit’ involved in allegations of torture under Yahya Jammeh’s rule, appeared before the Gambian Truth Commission. Allegedly, Lamin Darboe arrested at least 115 people as an agent of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). But Darboe denied everything, while some of his colleagues confessed all, at the same time, in a continued series of hearings on the NIA.
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Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers
18 January 2021By Mustapha K. Darboe, our correspondant in Banjul
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear from former members of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA). Torture, extortion, fabrication of evidence, interference with the judiciary and with elections: several perpetrators described what “beating the truth out of people” meant under former dictator Yahya Jammeh.
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