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Former members of a Gambian death squad known as Junglers on Thursday accused former president Yahya Jammeh of ordering the killing of two US citizens in 2013. after confessing to murdering a well-known journalist.
Since Monday, Gambians are seized the live coverage of three former Junglers – Malick Jatta, Omar Jallow and Amadou Badjie – before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of this West African country.
Badjie, a member of Jammeh's elite group, said that the head of state had ordered in June 2013 two Gambian-American businessmen, Alhaji Ceesay and Ebrima Jobe, to suspend their works until August 5th. planned a shot, should be "cut into pieces".
The two men were arrested and taken to the residence of the president in Kanilai village, said Badjie.
"Blind loyalty"
There, they were driven deep into the places where they were choked, beheaded and buried, added Badjie.
"These two people were suffocated to death and had their heads cut off, and we buried these bodies in one grave," he said.
"Our team was a successful team for Yahya Jammeh, we had a blind loyalty to Yahya Jammeh," he added.
Earlier, witnesses testified that they participated in the strangulation to death of Haruna Jammeh, Jammeh's cousin, as well as to the torture of the Imam Baba Leigh's Frankish cleric and to the execution in 2012 of nine inmates.
Jatta told the commission that the Junglers 'leader, Tumbul Tamba, had handed each of them 50,000 GMD ($ 1,250) as a thank you from Jammeh after the editor' s badbadination. Chief Dayda Hydara, who had written articles about the corruption that had characterized Jammeh's armed regime. 22 years old.
Jallow also said during the hearing that Jammeh had ordered the mbadacre of some thirty migrants who would have been "mercenaries" were sent to overthrow him in 2005.
The former officer of the Presidential Guard said that about 45 migrants from Ghana, Nigerians, Senegalese and Togolese to Europe had been arrested on a beach while they were trying to go to Europe.
"Yahya Jammeh has ordered the execution of foreign nationals," thinking that it was about mercenaries sent to overthrow him, Jallow said.
They were led to a shooting range, and their lieutenant, Lieutenant Solo Bojang, ordered the soldiers to kill the captives.
"Solo said that these people were mercenaries and he told us that the order of the former head of state (Yahya Jammeh) was to shoot them," he said. said, adding that the bodies had been thrown into a well.
Human Rights Watch said other migrants were also killed.
The saleswoman Mariama Mangaendor told AFP that she was "shocked when I watched TV and saw Staff Sergeant Omar Jallow confessing to have taken part in the event." execution of 48 people under the orders of ex-president Yahya Jammeh.I have regretted the vote for Jammeh in previous presidential elections ".
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Musa Manjang, a taxi driver, added: "Jammeh has finally been discovered.Who will now deny that he is one of those responsible for the mysterious disappearance of people, including kidnapping and murder more than 50 nationals from West Africa? "
The United States Embbady in Banjul has welcomed these revelations.
"This week, the testimonies (…) provided details on the direct involvement of former President Jammeh in the demise of US citizens Alhaji Ceesay and Ebrima Jobe in 2013," according to a statement.
"The United States welcomes the additional information that has been revealed because it offers the opportunity to relaunch our investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of these people."
Jammeh took power during a bloodless state coup in 1994 in the former British colony.
His refusal to leave power after losing the 2016 presidential election sparked a regional crisis in West Africa, which ended when Jammeh agreed to live in exile in Equatorial Guinea.
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