{"id":39991,"date":"2019-01-15T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/39991-sensitive-truths-at-the-gambia-s-truth-commission.html"},"modified":"2019-01-15T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T07:48:51","slug":"sensitive-truths-at-the-gambia-s-truth-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/39991-sensitive-truths-at-the-gambia-s-truth-commission.html","title":{"rendered":"Sensitive truths at the Gambia\u2019s truth commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The\u00a0Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) has opened its public hearings on January 7. Three former officers came to testify about their ordeal during and after the 22 July 1994 military coup. \u2018We never wanted to hurt a fly, that is why no one died during the coup\u2019, former president Yahya Jammeh would often say. Revelations before the\u00a0TRRC, however, tell a different story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a packed hall at a local hotel in Senegambia, a middle-class neighborhood in Kololi about 25-minute drive from Banjul, the capital city of the Gambia, people sit to hear witnesses and victims of the dictatorship of former president Yahya Jammeh.<\/p>\n<p>Gambia\u2019s former strongman may have evaded effective media scrutiny during his 22-year rule but details of how he came to power and presided over a dreaded government are now coming to light.\u00a0On January 7, the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) \u2013 established to probe human rights violations under Jammeh\u2019s rule after he lost elections and left the country, exactly two years ago \u2013 has begun to hear publicly the often emotional narrations of witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We never wanted to hurt a fly, that is why no one died during the coup\u2019, Jammeh would often say, referring to the July 22, 1994 military takeover that brought him to power. Revelations before the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>TRRC, however, tell a different story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Major Gomez\u2019s painful memories<\/h3>\n<p>Sheriff Gomez, a former major in the Gambian army until 1996, broke into tears and bend his head on the table before him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould you like to take a break,\u201d asked the deputy lead counsel of the Commission, Horeja Bala Gaye.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gomez was recounting how he had to leave his bed and sleep on the floor of his house because of prolonged detention.\u00a0Jailed for 27 months without a single court appearance, he had to sleep on a plank of wood during his imprisonment at the notorious Mile 2 prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a long time after I was released I only slept on my right side and on one side of my bed,\u201d he added with spatters of tears in his eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His crime was his disagreement with the coup.\u00a0Gomez was a senior administrator in the army, holding the keys of the country\u2019s armory. That position, which made him a person of interest for Jammeh and his collaborators, also made him their enemy when he did not agree with the military takeover.\u00a0Gomez explained the treatment he had to endure from fellow officers he had previously commanded in the army.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day of the coup, upon arrival at work the day, Gomez was arrested and locked in a military cell at the Yundum barracks, an encampment about 45-minute drive from Banjul. As he explained how the soldiers took the armory keys from him, the hall went quiet and Gomez was in tears again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdward [Singhateh] deliberately missed me with a bullet from a nine millimeter pistol. And he told me: next time I will not miss,\u201d Gomez said, after a minute silence.\u00a0Edward Singhateh, a former vice-president of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States, was one of the leaders of the coup.<\/p>\n<h3>At the Denton bridge, on 22 July 1994<\/h3>\n<p>In July 1994, Yahya Jammeh was a 29-year old lieutenant in the army. For the next 22 years, he was revered as much as he was feared. Having declared Gambia an Islamic state, he was a cult-like figure who walked around with prayer beads and a Quran.\u00a0But his life before the coup was a mystery to most Gambians.\u00a0The three first witnesses before the TRRC, all of whom have commanded and interacted with Jammeh, said the former ruler had attitudinal problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cYahya was a trouble for the Gambia from the beginning,\u201d said the first witness Ebrima Chongan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chongan trained Jammeh while he was a gendarme, a military police.\u00a0Then the gendarmerie was disbanded and some of its members went to the police while others went to the army. Jammeh was taken to the army.\u00a0Chongan said Jammeh had difficulty following orders from the beginning. He recalled how he saved him from punishment after he fought with a civilian while on a presidential security detail as a gendarme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a commander of the armed wing of the Gambian Police Force called the Tactical Support Group, Chongan was a strong opponent of the coup.\u00a0When he learned of the soldiers\u2019 action, he deployed armed police at Denton Bridge, a small river at the outskirt of Banjul.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them to shoot on sight any army officer who try to cross the bridge,\u201d he told the Commission. But the police did not engage Jammeh and his men.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third Commission witness, former major Amadou Suwareh, was the leader of the team deployed to the bridge.\u00a0As instructed, Suwareh had laid an ambush from the bridge to the capital, a land mass of about 6.2 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were armed to teeth with hand grenades, anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns. We only had AK47s. We [couldn\u2019t] stop them,\u201d Suwareh testified.\u00a0Though he did not agree with the coup, his decision to join was dictated by conscience, he said. According to him, the coup leaders, including Jammeh, were under the influence of alcohol and they were ready to kill anyone who gets on their way.\u00a0He eventually joined them and led the way to dismantle his own traps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere would be a bloodbath,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<h3>Torture and mock executions<\/h3>\n<p>Unlike Suwareh, Chongan refused to give in until he was overwhelmed.\u00a0Immediately after the coup, he was among the first 29 senior security officials who were detained by the junta for over 45 days incommunicado. He and the Inspector General of Police\u00a0Pa Sallah Jagne were taken to the Mile 2 Prison.\u00a0There he joined Gomez and dozens other people, both civilians and security forces. As the first victims of Jammeh, Gomez and Chongan told how they were tortured and subjected to mock execution in September 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took some of our colleagues out. After some minutes we heard them crying. And after some minutes again, you hear volleys of gunfire\u2026 You think they were killing them,\u201d said Gomez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Truth commission is conducting its hearings in chronological order. The first part of the sessions is looking into the chain of events that led to the 1994 coup.\u00a0The lead counsel of the Commission, Essa Faal, said they have listed 27 witnesses for this part.\u00a0The fourth witness was scheduled to begin his testimony on January 14.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"boorder: 1px solid #ccc;\"><div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/39244-reed-brody-we-have-the-power-to-bring-you-to-justice.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/140ea8119afbd5cae9f932de06fbea97-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/140ea8119afbd5cae9f932de06fbea97-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/140ea8119afbd5cae9f932de06fbea97-730x487.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/140ea8119afbd5cae9f932de06fbea97-1110x740.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/140ea8119afbd5cae9f932de06fbea97.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/39244-reed-brody-we-have-the-power-to-bring-you-to-justice.html\" class=\"articleLinkTitle articleLinkTitle--default\">\r\n\t\t\tReed Brody: \u201cWe have the power to bring you to justice\u201d\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission (TRRC) has opened its public hearings on January 7. Three former officers came to testify about their ordeal during and after the 22 July 1994 military coup. \u2018We never wanted to hurt a fly, that is why no one died during the coup\u2019, former president Yahya Jammeh would often say. 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