By RFIPubliée on 24-07-2019Modified on 24-07-2019 at 04:12

Heard on Tuesday (23 July) by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, two former members of Yahya Jammeh's presidential guard admitted to having participated in the execution of migrants on the orders of the former head of the Gambian state.

The facts date back to July 2005. Fifty-six migrants, mostly Ghanaians, but also Senegalese, Ivorians, Nigerians and Togolese, are summarily executed on the orders of former President Yahya Jammeh.

On the night of the massacre, Omar Jallow brings the victims one by one to the well where migrants are shot dead in a village in Casamance, Senegal. This "jungler" remembers particularly the last executed.

" He told me they were not mercenaries and wanted to join Europe. Before reaching the well, he gave me a ticket of 100 euros. He explained to me that it would not be useful for him to die with it. He asked me if he could say his prayers, which I accepted. He had barely knelt to say that Sanna Manjang was performing it. Lieutenant-Colonel Solo Bojang said that these people were mercenaries and that Yahya Jammeh had ordered all of them to be executed, "Omar Jallow told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Solo Bojang was the commander of this unit. Sanna Manjang, a fleeing army deserter, was accused by another "jungler", Malick Jatta, of participating in the 2004 assassination of journalist Deyda Hydara .

Malick Jatta confirmed that he shot a victim. But he downplays his involvement, contradicted Omar Jallow. Despite discordant versions, these revelations corroborate the independent survey conducted in 2018 by NGOs Human Rights Watch and TRIAL. The only survivor of the massacre, the Ghanaian Martin Kyere once again called on his government to conduct a thorough investigation.

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