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Gambia: Ex-President Tied to Killing of 59 Migrants Testimony Linking Yahya Jammeh to 2005 Murders Demands Justice By HRW Press MAR 12, 2021 (Banjul, March 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 should be followed by criminal accountability, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International said today. From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses told the Gambia Truth, Recon...

Views: Visits 135 New evidence shared by a former director of operations at Gambia’s national intelligence agency has linked former President Yahya Jammeh to the July 2005 killing of 51 West African migrants in the small West African country. The migrants, including 44 Ghanaians, nine Nigerians, two Togolese, and nationals of the Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Gambia, were killed over several days in the West African country. From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses informed the Gamb...

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 fo...

English News and Press Release on Gambia about Protection and Human Rights; published on 12 Mar 2021 by HRW

Gambia: Ex-President Tied to Killing of 59 Migrants Format Testimony Linking Yahya Jammeh to 2005 Murders Demands Justice (Banjul) -- Testimony before Gambias truth commission implicating then-president Yahya Jammeh in the summary execution in 2005 of about 59 West African migrants should be followed by criminal accountability, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International said today. From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses told the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TR...