Press: El Pais – Gambia, The Hidden Horrors of Africa’s Silent Dictatorship– Three years after the fall of the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh, pressured by the street after losing at the polls, a commission (Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations – TRRC) brings to light the terrible crimes committed for two decades, supported by its apparatus of repression, the collusion of justice and the outside inaction – Read the full feature El Pais / words by José Naranjo Noble
Press: El Pais – Gambia, The Hidden Horrors of Africa’s Silent Dictatorship
He was brought to the National Intelligence Agency.
“They took me down,” he says. “They covered my eyes and I felt an injection in my back, like a big staple gun, and then I felt something enter me burning inside. I was screaming, screaming, asking God for help. They started to hit me with a piece of hard rubber, he kicked me, punched me … and I thought, now I’m dead” ©Jason Florio/Helen Jones-Florio
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