Nearly a week after the approval of the comprehensive amnesty law in the National Assembly, there is a prevailing sense of anger and indignation among the families of the victims.

This law pardons offenses committed between 2021 and 2024, presenting itself as a measure to pacify the social climate, as stated by President Macky Sall.

Nevertheless, many families perceive it as a betrayal. In June of last year, 31-year-old Bassirou Sarr was fatally shot by a gendarme during the riots that erupted between protesters and law enforcement.

His family firmly rejects the general amnesty law and refuses to accept any compensation from the government.

WADR’s Augustine Kollie  has the details