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On April 25, the trial of a former member of a hit squad \u2013 known as the \u201cJunglers\u201d \u2013 under Yahya Jammeh\u2019s rule in The Gambia opens before a German court. Baboucar \u201cBai\u201d Lowe is a self-confessed former driver of this paramilitary group that he publicly denounced several years before the fall of Jammeh. His trial is the first of a Gambian under the principles of universal jurisdiction.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

As described in great details by the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) in its recent final report<\/a>, Gambia\u2019s former autocratic ruler Yahya Jammeh presided over a regime that committed many human rights violations from 1994 to 2017, though under a veil of secrecy. In the dictator\u2019s toolbox to muzzle the press and rights activists and target political opponents was a security outfit of ruthless enforcers: the Junglers. Little was known about the inner workings of the feared paramilitary group \u2014 their structure, missions and members \u2013 until the country\u2019s TRRC investigated it and had several former Junglers coming forward and testifying about their deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 25, the trial of an alleged member of the hit squad opens before a court in the city of Celle, near Hanover, in Northern Germany. It is the first trial of a Gambian under the principles of universal jurisdiction<\/a>, that allows countries to try individuals  for serious crimes committed abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First self-confessed \u201cJungler\u201d <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Baboucar \u201cBai\u201d Lowe, a class 2 warrant officer now 46-years old, was actually the first person to take Gambians beneath that veil of secrecy when he revealed his role a few years before Jammeh\u2019s fall after going into exile to Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowe joined the army in 1997, three years after Jammeh\u2019s military coup, according to a 2013 interview<\/a> he gave to an opposition US-based Gambian media, Freedom radio. He was posted at the State House and later became a driver in the military. In 2002 he left for commando training in Gaddafi\u2019s Libya with 31 others. Upon his return, he was deployed to Kanilai, Jammeh\u2019s stronghold. That\u2019s when he said he became a driver of the Junglers. However, a few years later he joined the opposition to campaign against the dictator, left the country and started to disclose many state secrets to Gambian online media sites. He accused Jammeh to be behind a number of crimes and named several officials at the time, including Ousman Sonko, a former Minister of Internal Affairs who is now prosecuted in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Baboucar
Baboucar \"Bai\" Lowe, in an undated photo published in the Gambian newspaper The Standard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Justice catching up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With revelations flowing before the TRRC after public hearings started in January 2019  German justice decided Lowe should be held to account. He was arrested<\/a> in March 2021 and has been in pre-trial detention since then. He is charged<\/a> with three counts of crimes against humanity for being allegedly involved in the attempted murder of lawyer Ousman Sillah<\/a> in 2003, as well as in the murders of renowned journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004, and of Jammeh\u2019s perceived political opponent Dawda Nyassi in 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ousman Sillah was one of the lawyers of Baba Jobe, a former close associate of Jammeh who was jailed for tax evasion. Jobe died while in prison. Before the Truth commission, former Jungler Omar Jallow confessed to participating in his execution. Sillah survived an attack on his life in 2005. In the TRRC report, the commissioners wrote that \u201cBai Lowe who was a member of the Jungler squad sent to assassinate Lawyer Ousman Sillah would later reveal to Freedom on line newspaper how they were ordered by Yahya Jammeh to assassinate Lawyer Ousman Sillah. The Junglers attempted to carry out the plan, but they failed by divine intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dawda Nyassi was a Gambian citizen who had gone to Liberia to fight in that country\u2019s civil war. When he came back to Gambia, Jammeh allegedly ordered his murder as he suspected Nyassi of having plans to overthrow him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowe was also reportedly involved in the murder of Haruna Jammeh, a cousin of Yahya Jammeh although this killing is not included in the trial in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gambia\u2019s TRRC has also called for Bai Lowe\u2019s prosecution<\/a> in the murder of 59 West African migrants in 2005<\/a> \u2013 a mass crime on which Lowe gave much details in earlier interviews \u2013 and groups have called for German authorities to investigate this massacre. \u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubts on Gambian government\u2019s commitment to justice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The trial of Bai Lowe opens while more questions hover over Gambia\u2019s president Adama Barrow\u2019s commitment to ensure justice for Jammeh-era crimes. Last week, Barrow appointed as speaker of the National Assembly \u2014 the country\u2019s third most powerful person \u2014 the leader of the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party (APRC), Fabakary Tombong Jatta. The new vice-president of the parliament, Seedy Njie, is a former Information Minister under Jammeh who declared Barrow\u2019s election in December 2016 was stolen, left with the dictator to Equatorial Guinea before coming back, joining Barrow and helping him form theNational People\u2019s Party which he now serves at the deputy spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Jammeh still lives in exile in Equatorial Guinea, the APRC leadership has, for the last 5 years, run a relentless campaign against the TRRC. Gambia\u2019s Justice Minister Dawda Jallow told Justice Info the government is still committed to justice. \u201cWe are working with the German authorities on this issue. Because of the critical nature of mutual legal assistance, we will not be able to spell out details,\u201d he also said. But critics and victims have expressed their doubts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe long arm of the law is catching up to Yahya Jammeh and his accomplices around the world,\u201d said Reed Brody of the International Commission of Jurists who works with Jammeh\u2019s victims. \u201cJammeh\u2019s henchmen have been arrested in Germany, Switzerland and the United States, and the Gambian truth commission has called for the prosecution of his accomplices in The Gambia, and of Jammeh himself.\u201d In his view, the trial in Germany \u201ctakes on even greater importance now as potential roadblocks to accountability have suddenly appeared in The Gambia, with the appointment of legislative leaders who have spoken out against the transitional justice process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baba Hydara is a son of murdered journalist Deyda Hydara and a plaintiff in the Bai Lowe case. \u201cIt has been a relief. We have been waiting for 18 years for someone to be held accountable. We consider this a start for justice to be finally delivered for the victims. This is not the end. There are others involved,\u201d he told Justice Info. \u201cThe trial of Bai Lowe is a wake-up call for the Gambia. If we can\u2019t find justice in our own country, we will go elsewhere. That is why this Bai Lowe trial symbolizes a lot. The main culprit is Yahya Jammeh. When Jammeh has a day in court, that day we will say we have done it. It will be a long journey but we are relentless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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