Special focus

Time for the truth in Gambia

Since January 2019, Gambians have been glued to the public hearings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). This commission was established to shed light on human rights violations committed during the military regime of Yahya Jammeh from July 1994 to January 2017. JusticeInfo.net brings together in a special focus its intensive coverage of what can be considered the event of the year 2019 in the field of transitional justice.

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Gambia: When “legal junglers” defend their role under military rule

The Yahya Jammeh regime relied on lawyers to draft and enact decrees that got rid of fundamental human rights. Some of them, including the first Minister of Justice under the military junta, were called to testify before Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. They essentially avoided to take personal responsibility.

By Mustapha K. Darboe, our correspondent in Banjul

Yahya Jammeh and truth commission witnesses in The Gambia

Gambia: spotlight on the extraordinary work of the Truth Commission

Sheriff Tambadou témoigne devant la commission vérité en Gambie

Gambia: how Jammeh weaponized the law

Toufah Jallow an another women watch the horizon from a Gambian beach

Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance

Bubacarr Bah testifies before the Truth Commission (TRRC) in The Gambia

Gambia: The story of a government-sanctioned massacre and its cover-up

Gambia: Did Jammeh order the killing of migrants?

Lamin Darboe testifies before the TRRC in Gambia

Gambia Truth Commission: Darboe, the faithful silent agent of the NIA

Omar Cham testifies befor the Trutch Commission (TRRC) in Gambia.

Gambia’s Truth Commission hears the NIA torturers

Gambia: The spy chief who knew too much or not enough

Major Baaji, Janus of the Gambian Intelligence Agency

Gambia: When Jammeh’s NIA were “beating the truth out of people”

Gambia: Jammeh’s Intelligence in spotlight

Hippocratic betrayal in Gambia

Gambia: "The President shortened the lives of these people, they were not supposed to die"

Gambia’s Truth Commission in a time of uncertainty

Gambia: Jammeh's magic anti-AIDS potion did not exist

Gambia: when Jammeh was driving at break-neck speed

David Colley, Gambia’s worst prison director ever

Tambadou quits: Will Gambia’s transition stay on course?

The truth behind the walls of Mile 2 prison, Jammeh’s “five-star hotel”

Correa, a ‘Jungler’ charged in the US: What Gambia’s Truth Commission has heard

Gambia: The truth shall set you free – or not

Gambia: The uncompleted search for the disappeared

Ousman Sonko: a view on the Swiss case, from Gambia’s Truth Commission

Gambia: When Jammeh was turning crocodile

Gambia: Finger pointing in the security forces

Gambia: The Supreme Islamic Council pointed at for its obedience to Jammeh

Gambia: When imams opposed “the leader of the people of faith”

Essa Faal: “We don’t want the truth commission to be seen as a toothless bulldog”

One year of truth-telling in the Gambia

Gambia: On the trail of deadly witch doctors in Jammeh’s region

Gambia’s Truth Commission and Yahya Jammeh’s witch hunters

Gambia: Witnesses testify of rape by Yahya Jammeh

Gambia’s TRRC hears about sexual violence and torture against women

Gambia: Jammeh’s wealth to go to his victims

Gambia: top leader in 1994 coup admits to murder

The selective memory of Gambia’s former vice-president

Gambia: I betrayed the students injured by gunshots, confesses Dr Jallow

Gambia: twenty years later, student victims are still crying out for justice

Anger flares at the release of Gambia’s confessed killers

Gambia’s full terror exposed before the TRRC

Gambia: “The media was the most persecuted institution under Jammeh”

Will Fatou Bensouda face the Truth Commission in Gambia?

Key junta member Touray puts Gambia's truth commission to the test

Gambia’s TRRC encounter with a man once feared

Being on Gambia’s TV without knowing it: Life of an opponent under Jammeh

Who are the key players at Gambia’s Truth Commission

Gambia’s transition: Expensive justice for a poor, little country

TRRC in Gambia: Sanna Sabally’s extraordinary moment of truth

Gambia unearths its past

The cost of lying to Gambia’s Truth Commission

Gambia: You’d better be truthful before the Truth commission

Gambia’s searching the truth on summary executions

Gambia’s Truth Commission shows it has teeth

Evidence at Gambia’s Truth Commission gets closer to former ruler

First confessions at Gambia’s Truth Commission

Gambia: When reparations can’t wait

A good medic under Gambia’s terror

Gambia: Uncomfortable truths on the 1994 executions

Sensitive truths at the Gambia’s truth commission

What model for Gambia’s truth commission?

Truth Commission meets with Gambians

ALL OUR ARTICLES ABOUT THE GAMBIA

Pending the publication of our next unpublished articles dedicated to this special focus about the TRRC, consult all of our publications dedicated to The Gambia, since 2015.