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Gambia: Commission Wraps Up 2 Years of Hearings On Ex-Dictator Jammeh's Rule
VOA, 1 June 2021
Gambia's truth commission has wrapped up more than two years of public hearings into alleged human rights violations committed during the 22-year rule of former dictator Yahya… Read more »
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Gambia: TRRC Ends Public Hearing, 392 Witnesses Testified
Foroyaa, 31 May 2021
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has on Friday 28th May 2021 concluded its public hearings. Read more »
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Gambia: When It Is Time for Reconciliation
JusticeInfo.net, 1 June 2021
After more than two years of often spectacular public hearings, Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission closed its hearings on May 28. It will present its report… Read more »
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Gambia: Mam Sait Njie Describes Jammeh As Monster, Fraudster
The Point, 28 May 2021
Mam Sait Njie, on Wednesday appeared before the TRRC and described former President Yahya Jammeh as a monster and fraudster after his intersection with Jammeh in connection with a… Read more »
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Gambia: Ex-Soldier Reveals List Jammeh Targeted for Execution
The Point, 28 May 2021
Saikou Jallow, former orderly to ex-president Yahya Jammeh, yesterday in his TRRC testimony, unveiled a list of persons perceived by former Gambia leader Yahya Jammeh as enemies to… Read more »
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Gambia: Faal Demands Jammeh Face Justice As TRRC Records 250 Murders
The Point, 31 May 2021
After two years of national duty designed to investigate crimes committed by former President Yahya Jammeh and his enablers, the lead counsel of the TRRC, Essa M. Faal revealed… Read more »
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Gambia: Mam Sait Njie Describes Jammeh As Monster, Fraudster
The Point, 31 May 2021
Mam Sait Njie, on Wednesday appeared before the TRRC and described former President Yahya Jammeh as a monster and fraudster after his intersection with Jammeh in connection with a… Read more »
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Gambia: Victim Describes Yahya Jammeh As Monster, Fraudster
Foroyaa, 27 May 2021
Mam Sait Njie, a victim of rights violations has described former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh as a monster and fraudster. Read more »
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Gambia: Coupist Gives Rare Insight On Dec. 30th Attack
The Point, 27 May 2021
Modou Njie, a soldier of The Gambia Armed Force (GAF), yesterday testified before the TRRC on the account of the December 30th attack, which took place at the State House. The… Read more »
Testimony Ends On Alleged Atrocities Under Gambia's Yahyah Jammeh
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) has on Friday 28th May 2021 concluded its public hearings. Three hundred and ninety-two witnesses testified before the Truth Commission to give evidence of the human rights violations that took place during the reign of former President Yahya Jammeh.
The National Assembly of the Republic of The Gambia enacted a law (TRRC Act, 2017) which established the TRRC whose main objectives are to create an impartial historical record of violations and abuses of human rights from July 1994 to January 2017, in order to promote healing and reconciliation, respond to the needs of the victims, address impunity, and prevent a repeat of the violations and abuses suffered by making recommendations for the establishment of appropriate preventive mechanisms including institutional and legal reforms.
The Commission's objective was also to establish and make known the fate or whereabouts of disappeared victims; provide victims an opportunity to relate their own accounts of the violations and abuses suffered, and grant reparations to victims in appropriate cases.
InFocus
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On May 27, 2021, the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will conclude over two years of publicly televised sessions. Victims and former government ... Read more »
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Edward Singhatey, a former vice-chairman of the defunct Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council of Yayah Jammeh, offered his apology to Gambians for the rights violation they ... Read more »
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President Yayah Jammeh has lost a close ally as his foreign minister, Neneh MacDouall-Gaye, has resigned. This comes after the country's Supreme Court refused to hear his ... Read more »
The courtroom of the Gambia Truth-Reconciliation-Reparation Commission, set up in December 2017 to investigate crimes committed between July 1994 and January 2017 (August 2019).
