Nearly two decades following the massacre of some Fifty-Nine West African migrants by a paramilitary unit of the former Gambian President Yaya Jammeh, the only survivor testified Thursday before a court in Germany.
These migrants were arrested by a group known as The Death Squad in July 2005 on the order of Jammeh.
He suspected them of planning a coup against him.
Jammeh’s 22-year rule was marked by systematic oppression and widespread human rights violations, including torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and sexual violence.
Sankulleh Janko reports.
