The AFPRC leadership celebrates the success of the July 22 Coup
Gambians who experienced the horrors, the realities and the struggles
of our people to regain their freedom and democratic institutions during
Yahya’s dictatorship are morally obliged to tell the truths to expose the
saddest and scariest human rights and economic crimes of former president Yahya
Jammeh.
A legacy of terror has been discovered by the forensic
exhumation of mass grave with the aim of recovering bodies and extracting
physical evidence…proof of specific crimes which the regime of Yahya Jammeh is
being accused of. This mass grave discovered where the November 11 alleged
coupists have been buried correspond to major atrocities perpetrated by the
AFPRC regime.
Nothing can change history. Nothing can change the truth. Yahya
Jammeh is no hero. He is not a great man, not a human being. He is a machine; a
money machine; stripped by his overwhelming passion of greed of every quality
which makes a man unworthy of a citizen. He has not made good. He cannot make
good. It is not him. He has nothing the aspiring world needs.
On the contrary, that for which he does stand is a menace, to
our free development not only or chiefly, our free development in human rights,
but vastly more important, our free development in citizenship and morals.
There is no darker period in our recent history than the
dictatorship era of Yahya Jammeh. There is hardly any Gambian family that was
left untouched by death and grief during the Yahya’s dictatorship. To this day,
we carry with us stories of men killed in incommunicado, women raped in
detention centres, and children left orphaned by countless human rights
violations across the country and all throughout the tenure of Yahya Jammeh.
Today, the man who set the wheels of dictatorship in motion is
in exile in Equatorial Guinea as a farmer. This is a man who buried us in debt
and left us mourning our dead as he stole from the country’s coffers and
pillaged our nation for more than 22 years are too deep for our hopelessness
and woundedness to heal.
Our history is replete with stories of how dictatorship has
changed the lives of our people. To deny that these atrocities happened and to
forget the suffering it has caused is to betray our history as people who
fought for freedom from the dark days of dictatorship. Yahya Jammeh is
inconsolable and unforgivable.
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Gambians who experienced the horrors, the realities and the struggles of our people to regain their freedom and democratic institutions during Yahya’s dictatorship are morally obliged to tell the truths to expose the saddest and scariest human rights and economic crimes of former president Yahya Jammeh.
A legacy of terror has been discovered by the forensic exhumation of mass grave with the aim of recovering bodies and extracting physical evidence…proof of specific crimes which the regime of Yahya Jammeh is being accused of. This mass grave discovered where the November 11 alleged coupists have been buried correspond to major atrocities perpetrated by the AFPRC regime.
Nothing can change history. Nothing can change the truth. Yahya Jammeh is no hero. He is not a great man, not a human being. He is a machine; a money machine; stripped by his overwhelming passion of greed of every quality which makes a man unworthy of a citizen. He has not made good. He cannot make good. It is not him. He has nothing the aspiring world needs.
On the contrary, that for which he does stand is a menace, to our free development not only or chiefly, our free development in human rights, but vastly more important, our free development in citizenship and morals.
There is no darker period in our recent history than the dictatorship era of Yahya Jammeh. There is hardly any Gambian family that was left untouched by death and grief during the Yahya’s dictatorship. To this day, we carry with us stories of men killed in incommunicado, women raped in detention centres, and children left orphaned by countless human rights violations across the country and all throughout the tenure of Yahya Jammeh.
Today, the man who set the wheels of dictatorship in motion is in exile in Equatorial Guinea as a farmer. This is a man who buried us in debt and left us mourning our dead as he stole from the country’s coffers and pillaged our nation for more than 22 years are too deep for our hopelessness and woundedness to heal.
Our history is replete with stories of how dictatorship has changed the lives of our people. To deny that these atrocities happened and to forget the suffering it has caused is to betray our history as people who fought for freedom from the dark days of dictatorship. Yahya Jammeh is inconsolable and unforgivable.
By Alagi Yorro Jallow