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General News of Thursday, July 25, 2019
Source: theghanareport.com
2019-07-25
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Two Gambian soldiers working for a criminal brigade controlled by former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh admitted killing 44 Ghanaians at the order of the former president.
The information available to the Ghana Report reveals how the former leader of the Gambia ordered the killing of 56 West African migrants, including 44 Ghanaians.
Lieutenant Malick Jatta and Corporal Omar A. Jallow revealed to the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) that the migrants had been executed by the Junglers team across the Gambian border in the territory. Senegalese.
"We were told that they were mercenaries," Jatta said. Jatta said to have shot down one of the migrants. "I heard people screaming in the forest saying," Save us, Jesus. ""
Jallow told the TRRC that Lieutenant Colonel Solo Bojang, the chief of the operation, had told the men that "the order of Yahya Jammeh is that they must all be executed".
The confessions of Jatta and Jallow corroborate the findings of a Human Rights Watch and TRIAL report dated May 2018 that the migrants were murdered by the "Junglers". Jammeh has always denied any involvement in these murders.
"The testimonies of Jammeh's henchmen confirm that the migrants were murdered by paramilitary death squads under President Jammeh," said Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch. "It's now time to get to the bottom of Jammeh's responsibilities."
Jammeh is currently in Equatorial Guinea, where he exiled after losing the 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow. The Jammeh regime has been marked by widespread abuse, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, badual violence, torture and arbitrary detention.
Jatta said that after killing a migrant, he saw another migrant running to hide at about 20 meters from him. "I can say that I saved this person. If I wanted to kill him, sir, 20 meters away, I would not miss my target, "Jatta told TRRC Chief Executive Essa Faal.
It is possible that Jatta refers to one of the survivors of the incident, Martin Kyere. Kyere had avoided the bullets of the gunmen after jumping from a truck carrying arrested migrants before the Junglers killed them.
Following the release of the Human Rights Watch and TRIAL report, the Government of Ghana has stated that it plans to reopen its investigation into the July 2005 mbadacre. A year later, however, the government did not took no action. A coalition of Ghanaian groups, led by former president of Ghana's Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Affairs, Judge Emile Short, called on the government to "accelerate actions and moves; legal, political and diplomatic in order to achieve justice. The Ghana Justice Coalition includes the African Center for International Law and Accountability, Amnesty International, CDD-Ghana, POS Foundation, Media Foundation for West Africa, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Center for the Defense of Human Rights
Survivor Martin Kyere reacted to today's news by calling on the Ghanaian government to continue the investigation. "We want our government to say, yes, it is time for justice to be done for the 44 people who were killed," Kyere said.
In addition to Ghanaians, the victims of the mbadacre included citizens of Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Côte d'Ivoire.
On Monday, Jatta had confessed to his involvement in 3 executions, including the murder of journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004.
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