{"id":82683,"date":"2021-09-30T10:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=82683"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T09:18:48","slug":"gambia-reconciliation-still-on-the-back-burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/82683-gambia-reconciliation-still-on-the-back-burner.html","title":{"rendered":"In Gambia, reconciliation still on the back burner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><strong>The final report of Gambia\u2019s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission was expected today, but may be further delayed. After nearly three years of transitional justice, the country remains divided, and reconciliation within communities has hardly been a priority. The cancer of distrust affects even Jammeh\u2019s own family.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>During his appearance before Gambia\u2019s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in January 2020, a US-based Gambian professor described former president Yahya Jammeh as \u201cdeeply suspicious\u201d, \u201ccynical\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic\u201d. His assessment may not be shared by all but most Gambians would agree that Jammeh mastered the art of divide and rule. After two and a half years of public hearings before the TRRC, old scars of Jammeh\u2019s rights violations have reopened and divisions he had sowed resurfaced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe found very divided communities especially in Foni,\u201d Jammeh\u2019s birth region, said Tuti Nyang, a reconciliation officer with the Truth Commission. \u201cI remember we went to a community in Foni, and they were saying that at their \u2018Gamo\u2019 [annual Islamic gathering] that year, most of their food was wasted because whereas they used to do it as a whole community, different clans decided to not join them. The TRRC was at its peak. Revelations were being made. Accusations and counter-accusations were going on. It broke the community ties. In one community a fight broke out because the victims were being blamed that their stories were made up.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communities more divided than ever<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReconciliation should not be expected as soon as the transitional justice process finishes. It needs concrete steps and actions to be decided, taken and implemented,\u201d said Didier Gbery of the International Center for Transitional Justice, an NGO.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nyang and her colleagues have held close to 30 peacebuilding meetings in various communities across the country.&nbsp;A few additional person-to-person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/77910-gambia-time-reconciliation.html\">reconciliation events were organized by the TRRC<\/a>. Yet for both the Commission and the government, reconciliation has seemed to remain on the back burner. \u201cReconciliation is at the core of the Truth Commission\u2019s functions but we came into the Commission to do reconciliation jobs with no strategy. There was no foundation. And there was no general consensus on how we want reconciliation to take place in the Gambia,\u201d said Nyang. \u201cThe political commitment is not even there for the right reconciliation approach. The communities today are more divided than ever before. If you open a wound and do not clean it properly, it will not heal. The difficult and the uncomfortable conversations need to happen,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Yahya Jammeh\u2019s farm in Kanilai<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gambia_Haruna.jpg\" alt=\"Haruna Jammeh\" class=\"wp-image-82676\" width=\"284\" height=\"480\" title=\"Haruna Jammeh\"\/><figcaption>Haruna Jammeh, a cousin of Yahya Jammeh, whom the former president has allegedly murdered with his sister.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Such sensitive and uncompleted conversations have seemed to affect even the heart of the family of the former dictator himself. Yahya Jammeh\u2019s own family relationships were indeed wrecked after he allegedly killed his cousin Haruna Jammeh and Haruna\u2019s sister Masie Jammeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI used to call my Dad\u2019s phone every day hoping he would pick up,\u201d recounts Isatou Jammeh, a daughter of Haruna Jammeh, in an interview with Justice Info. She has now joined the campaign to bring the former leader \u2013 who lives in exile in Equatorial Guinea \u2013 to justice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahya and Haruna grew up, with several other cousins, in the house of Isatou\u2019s grandfather, Buruma Jammeh. Buruma, a farmer, was a brother of Jamus Junkung Jammeh, the father of Yahya. Growing up in Kanilai, a town in southern Gambia, bordering Senegal\u2019s Casamance, Yahya lived and worked in the farm rearing animals with his cousins, including Haruna, his biological brother and his sister, Masie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masie would grow to be the custodian of the shrine, an important place of worship in the Jammeh family. Haruna would become a manager at a local hotel, a job he kept until 1996.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahya started a farm in Kanilai after he took power through a military coup on July 22, 1994. Haruna\u2019s love and skills for farming would come in handy and he accepted the president\u2019s offer to work at his farm, even though his family had cautioned him against it, according to Isatou. Haruna took the job and moved to Kanilai, occasionally visiting his family in Serrekunda, next to Gambia\u2019s capital city, on weekends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The disappearance of Haruna, Jammeh\u2019s cousin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>However, unlike his other cousins, Haruna did not have a very smooth relationship with Yahya and their relations worsened after the president started a witch-hunt in Kanilai in the early 2000s, beginning with his own family. \u201cAll the old women in the house, he gave them a concoction to drink and most of them lost their lives,\u201d claimed Isatou. \u201cMy Dad was against this.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2005, Haruna called to tell his wife about his soured relations with Yahya. Isatou was 11. A few days later, he disappeared.&nbsp;His car was found around Kanfenda, a small village about 10 minutes\u2019 drive from Kanilai.&nbsp;Haruna\u2019s brother would occasionally call to assure the family that Haruna was alive and would join them soon. But Haruna never reappeared and rumour kept circulating about his fate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, Yahya Jammeh granted a general amnesty, releasing political prisoners. Haruna\u2019s name was 45 on the list. But he was not released. In 2014, the truth began to come out when Bai Lowe, a driver of the \u2018Junglers\u2019 \u2014 a hit squad on the orders of president Jammeh \u2014 gave an interview to US-based Fatu Radio from Germany where he lived in exile.&nbsp;He said he witnessed the execution of Haruna Jammeh. (Last March, Lowe was arrested in Hannover by German authorities.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the TRRC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2019, Jungler Omar Jallow confessed to participating in Haruna\u2019s execution. And according to him, Haruna\u2019s sister was also executed a few months later. \u201cMasie was the custodian of the shrine in Kanilai. She was threatening that the gods will be angry with Yahya for spilling the blood of a family member. I think he got irritated because of that,\u201d said Isatou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The law of silence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor 14 years, I have not set foot in my village,\u201d Isatou continued. It is a taboo, she said, to even talk about Haruna and Masie in the family. Haruna\u2019s biological brother still lives in Kanilai; he does not talk about it, she said.&nbsp;Suspicion has grown about who may be complicit in the murders. Silence, too, has deepened. Haruna and Masie\u2019s death are said to be \u2018God\u2019s wish\u2019, without ascribing blame to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe family is so divided because of all these violations,\u201d Isatou lamented.&nbsp;\u201cSometimes, I worry if I get a husband, who would give my hand in marriage?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this context, the main political news this month was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/81884-gambia-truth-commissions-final-report-binned.html\">alliance between two former enemies: President Adama Barrow\u2019s National People\u2019s Party and Yahya Jammeh\u2019s Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party<\/a>. The price of this form of reconciliation is said to be to grant Yahya Jammeh an amnesty and allow his return from exile with the benefits of a former president.\u00a0But \u201creconciliation is more than Yahya Jammeh coming back to take his assets,\u201d said Nyang. \u201cYou are only going to make one part of society happy and antagonize the other part.\u00a0The Truth Commission was established to right the wrongs. 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After nearly three years of transitional justice, the country remains divided, and reconciliation within communities has hardly been a priority. 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