Reflection on the nature of the dictatorship of Jammeh

This article is intended for the young Gambian generation of the diaspora who was born after 1994.

Those who do not know what the legal and extrajudicial government repression of public criticism means. Those who did not live in a "dictatorship", where owning a book, speaking out against the ills of the state or committing the president in a bar, were a sure way to commit the crime of sedition

. intelligence agency on behalf of "National Intelligence Agency", which had bad for crushed bads. On several occasions, the NIA has been harbading the opposition and journalists for supporting the opposition's policy. Many died in the hands of militia gangs organized by young people, who had the full support of Yahya's government. Many have been arrested, tortured and killed. Some went into exile to escape the brutality of Yahya

Reflection on the dictatorship:
Under the fear of fear, a nation is hidden from the world. Inside its doors, hundreds of valid citizens have died in secret. Some were buried in prison sites, and others were dissolved in acid.
[We] knew,
[We] saw,
[We] did not speak. [We] hoped that it would end soon.

Just like the others who had also seen, we did not tell anyone about it. A hundred, then a hundred others, gathered in detention homes. Picked up – removed houses, unloaded sedan cars, shoved offices, stopped on the way from somewhere else – prosecuted and tried at night. Guilty, they were loaded on the backs of the trucks. And then corpses strewn with lime were piled up in large holes dug in the lands of the appropriate farms. Washed with acid, covered with a soil that became even more crimson, on which new forests were planted.

People, we must never support any government, which seeks to subjugate sections of society, arbitrarily arrest its citizens, mentor people who have not committed crimes, or kill its critics ardent. If you do, the snake will come back to bite.

The guns at Yundum today can be pointed in the direction of Sankwia someday. I hope it will not happen in my life. This historical, constant and alternating defamation of one or the other ethnic community, depending on who controls the power of the state, will one day explode so that we are unable to control.

President Adama Barrow does not know this pain. It comes from a familiar comfort and privilege background that has never spent a day with the infamous National Intelligence Agency.