Gambia: Open Letter to President Barrow - Justice for the Faraba Victims Now!

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Dear Mr. President,

When you appointed me Executive Secretary of the TRRC back in late January 2018, my understanding was that your government was fully and genuinely invested in addressing past human rights violations and preventing the recurrence of future ones. I believed that under your watch, no Gambian blood will ever be shed by Gambian security forces and that with your support, the TRRC will help bring justice to the victims and the families of victims of the people who lost their lives or otherwise suffered gross human rights violations under the former regime. I am writing to you because today, I begin to feel that my conviction as stated above has been badly shaken and that ultimately, it will be hard for me to pretend to address the issue of gross human rights violations in an environment, in which the very same violations are being repeated as evidenced by the tragic killing of protesters in Faraba Banta on Monday, June 18 2018.

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