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The \u201cArch 22\u201d is an imposing monument built by Gambia\u2019s former dictator Yahya Jammeh to the glory of his \u201crevolution\u201d. The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission wants to make it a memorial to Jammeh\u2019s victims. But the government has opposed the move. A week before the Commission is due to present its report, politics and polarization are on the rise.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At the entrance to Gambia\u2019s capital, Banjul, is a monument designed as a memorial to the July 22, 1994, military takeover by Yahya Jammeh. The imposing three-floor structure \u2014 42 metres high and 30 metres wide \u2014 was built between 1995 and 1996, costing taxpayers US$1 million. It was erected on a burial site of dead British colonial officers, whose remains were moved to Jeshwang, some 10 minutes\u2019 drive from Banjul. In 2000, the Arch \u2013 widely called \u201cArch 22\u201d \u2013 was made a national monument. It has a large flower bed a few metres away, at the centre of which stood a statue known in Gambia as the \u201cunknown soldier\u201d \u2014 a man holding a baby in the right hand, with an AK47 assault rifle on his back and two fingers of the left hand in the air. The ersatz bronze statue symbolized the supposed \u2018soldiers with a difference\u2019, a label the Junta was given in the early days of the \u201crevolution\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018unknown soldier\u2019 was removed by a group of civilian vigilantes after the fall of Jammeh in January 2017 and has since been relocated to the country\u2019s national museum in Banjul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent investigation into Jammeh\u2019s financial dealings, the contract to build the Arch was single-sourced to a \u201cclose associate\u201d of the former dictator, Amadou Samba. But the monument paying tribute to the coup still sits overlooking the country\u2019s Supreme and High Courts which are cut off from the Justice Ministry by a road leading to the State House, the seat of the presidency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA suitable place to memorialize anything\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In late June, the Arch made headlines as the centre of a dispute between the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) and the Ministry of Justice. It started with an eight-page memorandum of understanding, dated 24 May, between the National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC), the institution responsible for the Arch maintenance, and the TRRC, aimed at renaming the monument to a \u201cMemorial Arch\u201d. \u201cA plaque will be erected and the names of all persons who died as a result of human rights violations and abuses committed by state agents or their sponsors during the Jammeh era will be inscribed on the plaque,\u201d states the memorandum. \u201cThe names of the victims can be carved in wood, clay, stone or metal within the Arch 22 space to become like a Memorial Wall.\u201d Among other things planned at the monument are photo exhibitions of Jammeh era victims and relics of torture artefacts put on display, including a recreation of \u201cBanba Dinka\u201d, a holding cell at the National Intelligence Agency, located right next to the Arch, where prisoners were tortured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gambia\u2019s leading historian Hassoum Ceesay is the managing director of the NCAC. \u201cThousands visit the Arch, among them students and tourists. The Arch is a very suitable place to memorialize anything,\u201d he told Justice Info. Indeed, the Arch already exhibits pictures both celebrating Jammeh\u2019s rule and depicting its human rights violations. \u201cThe Memorial will add value in terms of increasing visits by the public. They [The Commission] were also supposed to give the Arch a facelift,\u201d said Ceesay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Ministry pushes back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As the Truth Commission made first preparations to start the project, local newspapers broke the story. Jammeh\u2019s supporters saturated social media sites expressing anger at what they considered an attempt to erase Jammeh\u2019s legacy. But they were not the only ones. Known supporters of President Barrow, whose party has been criticized for flirting with Jammeh\u2019s support base, have equally opposed the idea. A youth leader in Barrow\u2019s party, Sanusey Taal, said on his Facebook page that the \u201c<\/strong>renaming of the Arch is a political suicide\u201d for his party and the president because it would anger the APRC, Jammeh\u2019s party, whose votes he is trying to get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However,the official story claims not to be about politics. Minister of Justice Dawda Jallow, under whose purview the TRRC falls, said the government was not informed of the decision. \u201cWe were not in the picture. So, I had to call them [the TRRC] and say that the ministry should not be unaware of renaming a major national asset like that. There are laid down rules for this, which include going to cabinet to seek approval,\u201d Jallow told local media on June 23. He added that the Commission could include the proposal in the recommendations of its final report, which it is expected to submit to the President on July 12.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TRRC disagreed. It claims its Act gives it powers to grant reparations and that the move to rename the Arch was part of its memorialization programme, a form of reparations granted by truth commissions. It also denied having left the authorities in the dark. \u201cWe have informed our line ministry \u2014 Justice \u2014 and also the Ministry of Tourism. An aide-memoire was written to them all,\u201d Essa Jallow, the communications director of the TRRC, told Justice Info. \u201cSo, if the information did not get to [President] Barrow, that would not be our problem because we do not directly correspond with the President.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Political expediency?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The government\u2019s rejection of the plans to rename the Arch has aroused additional controversies. For some activists, it is a warning shot foretelling how political expediency will affect the implementation of the Truth Commission\u2019s recommendations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights defender Madi Jobarteh believes the TRRC should have had an extensive consultation on the issue, including meeting the President. \u201cHowever, if the government was also interested and committed to this issue, nothing stops them from intervening way earlier, just to make sure the right process is taken,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that the government only said \u2018hold on\u2019, we are yet to hear or see any effort in pursuing the matter further. Rather, we heard from many sources about the rapprochement between the NPP [President Barrow\u2019s party] and the APRC, thus validating concerns that indeed it was due to political expediency that the government put a stop to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Gambian researcher and academic Sait Matty Jaw, \u201cwhat is appropriate not to further deepen political polarization is for the TRRC to recommend and the government to implement\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRRC\u2019s credibility challenged<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The political intrigue is further fed by rumours about the presidential ambitions of two major players at the TRRC: the Commission\u2019s executive secretary Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow<\/a> and its lead counsel Essa Faal<\/a>. Jallow said in June that he had seriously considered running for the presidency as an independent candidate but that he has changed his mind due to certain unspecified constraints. Faal hasn\u2019t publicly spoken about the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the Commission\u2019s report is to be approved by all the commissioners, the two play a significant function in its drafting. Critics said their decision on running for president could affect how the Commission is seen. \u201cGiven their role in one of the most transformative institutions established to help address past injustice impartially, for them to come and contest will undoubtedly draw concerns,\u201d said Jaw. \u201cAnd I think I am equally concerned as to how their interest, particularly Faal's interest, will inform the outcome of the TRRC. Already his critics are pointing to the fact that he has used the TRRC as a launchpad for his politics. Whether true or not, it\u2019s dividing public opinion and contributing to further polarization. Perhaps Fall\u2019s win [would] help implement the TRRC recommendations but him losing and the politics around him might make it difficult for any government to implement the recommendations. His department might have a significant hand in the drafting of the TRRC report and that may also raise partiality concerns. It\u2019s a difficult question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRRC executive secretary Dr. Jallow disagrees. \u201cI think that most of these critics are not entirely innocent or disinterested in who is running or not running for president because they support other parties and candidates,\u201d he said. \u201cMoreover, how exactly is the state or APRC supposed to politicize the commission\u2019s recommendations beyond what they have already done? Has the APRC not consistently called the commission\u2019s work a political witch hunt against Jammeh? Have they not always alleged that witnesses are bribed to testify against Jammeh? Have they not insisted that Jammeh has never committed a single human rights violation? As for the state, is it not a well-known fact that Barrow has been courting the APRC for more than a year now? Is it not a known fact that the NPP and APRC are in talks and negotiations over forming a possible coalition in the December 2021 elections? If the NPP and APRC form a coalition, or even if Barrow is assured of votes from APRC supporters, we would not expect him to implement the recommendations of the commission when it comes to prosecuting those most responsible for human rights violations, which is to say Jammeh himself and some of his key lieutenants. So, to claim that our involvement in politics will lead to the politicization of the TRRC recommendations is a non-starter because both the state and the APRC have long been doing exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For historian Ceesay, the saga over the Arch has come to overshadow what is a good project to preserve history. \u201cThe renaming should not distract us from the permanent exhibition and other things that would have added value to the Arch,\u201d he said, expressing his disappointment at the turn of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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