Gambia: Ex-President Tied to Killing of 59 Migrants
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, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) that migrants bound for Europe from Congo, Cote d’Ivoi...