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Momodou
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Momodou
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 Posted - 03 Apr 2017 : 13:38:43
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Police exhume six bodies
The Point: Monday, April 03, 2017
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/police-exhume-six-bodies
 The police have exhumed four bodies secretly killed and buried in the Fonis during the regime of Yahya Jammeh, the state TV, GRTS, reported at the weekend.
“They were exhumed by a group of police crime and forensic experts working carefully digging and pilling soil on a blue tarpaulin beside the trench,” the report said.
The exhumed bodies were four Gambian dissidents who had American nationality killed in December 2014.
They were accused of allegedly wanting to overthrow the government of Yahya Jammeh. They are Col. Lamin Sanneh, who was once state guard commander, and Njaaga Jagne, Jaja Nyass, and Dawda Bojang, who were all former officers in the American army.
Lance Caporal Jallow and Abdou Gaye, a businessman, were first exhumed on Wednesday, according to media report.
Security sources told The Point newspaper that nine jungulars were arrested last month and are helping the police in the investigation and indicating locations of graves of people killed during the Jammeh regime.
The bodies exhumed are kept in the mortuary of Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul.
The police PRO, Foday Conta, said: “The exercise was the beginning of a search that will not stop until justice is served for the families of the victims.’’
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Momodou
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Posted - 04 Apr 2017 : 11:10:22
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New locations of secret burials discovered in Kanilai
By Frédéric Tendeng
Source: FB 04-04-2017
Kanilai is also revealing its gruesome share of Yahya Jammeh's inhuman and macabre legacy. New locations of secret burials have been discovered this Monday, in the monster's home ground. A tip off by the Yahya Jammeh's detained killers, also called the Junglers, led a Gambian forensic team supported by elements of The Gambia Police Force Intervention Unit to the said ground since Monday afternoon. Exhumation of the human remains in these secret locations continues this Tuesday while the Police pursues its investigations. We're yet afar from imagining the magnitude of Yahya Jammeh's reign of horror over the past 22 years as unfortunately, more of these bad news are yet to come.
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Momodou
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Posted - 05 Apr 2017 : 12:27:36
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Security forces determined to unearth atrocities by Jammeh regime
By Halimatou Ceesay
The Point: Wednesday, April 05, 2017
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/security-forces-determined-to-unearth-atrocities-by-jammeh-regime
 The crime management unit under the Gambia Police Force and the Gambia Armed and Security Force are determined to unearth the alleged atrocities committed by Yahya Jammeh’s regime.
This was made known in a press briefing held at the police headquarters in Banjul yesterday.
The briefing by both stakeholders was actually held to tell the public the progress made so far in responding to cases of disappearance and death of Gambians including other atrocities allegedly committed by Yahya Jammeh and his regime.
Speaking at the briefing, Commissioner Babucarr Sarr, crime management coordinator at the Gambia Police Force, said they have 33 case files from 33 complainants that have been compiled and are currently under investigation.
They have got a lead on 7 cases, he said, adding that they have 10 suspects under their custody helping them in their investigations.
He said the 7 cases involve people who were present during the commissioning of these crimes.
They are also investigating to see if they will have information from other sources, he added, saying they have exhumed three bodies and are hoping to identify others in the near future.
Commissioner Sarr said some of the suspects are jungulars, and jungulars are not civilians but members of the armed forces; so they are detained under the armed forces act.
They are on the move to get pathologists, he disclosed, saying they have the Coroners Act in The Gambia and anything they do is in line with the country’s coroners’ act. “At the police the coroners have the final say in such situations of atrocities involving disappearances and deaths,” he said.
GAF PRO Lt Colonel Omar Bojang, in his remarks, said that with regard to the jungulars at large, they have an ongoing investigation and members of the armed and security services will do everything to unearth the atrocities allegedly committed by the former regime.
In order not to jeopardize the ongoing investigations they would not reveal everything about their plans to unearth the facts to the media.
“When they are done we will call the media to brief them,” he said, adding that culprits would not escape after committing such atrocities.
“The Armed and Security Forces are doing everything possible to bring them to book,” the army PRO said.
He said they are working hard to expedite the process to ensure everyone in pain is healed of their agony and trauma.
Commenting on the explosion in Wassadu, PRO Bojang said the incident had no link to the exhumed bodies and that Wassadu is close to the Cassamance region where the people are fighting to liberate themselves.
However, he noted, they had been investigating the matter to see how and what type of mine exploded in the area to establish the cause.
Talking on how long suspects in government custody will be held in detention, the army PRO said the Armed Forces Act mandated them to keep their personnel for a period of time so they could complete investigations.
He said they are mindful about releasing suspects in custody because they might escape the jurisdiction of the country.
In the Armed Forces Act, they can keep suspects in detention for a month and the commanding officer can also renew a person’s continuous detention, he explained.
Momodou B.E. Njie, an uncle to Lamin Sanneh, whose body was exhumed on Friday, gave memories of his nephew recalling his last sight of his nephew.
He said his family had suffered a lot under Jammeh’s regime due to the detention, torture and death meted out to his nephew.
He therefore refers to his late nephew and colleagues as National Heroes who deserved to be given a befitting burial and a monument erected in their name so they could be remembered for good.
Maleh Jagne, brother to the late Njaga Jagne, whose body was also exhumed on Friday, appealed to the relevant state authorities to consult them anytime they want to carry out process on the bodies, saying media broadcast of the remains is somehow hurtful.
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Momodou
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Posted - 07 Apr 2017 : 12:17:32
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Crime scene identified and secured
By Frédéric Tendeng
We now have confirmation that the secret grave covering the remains of Ebou Jobe and Alhagie Mamut Ceesay in the forest of Alakunda, has been identified, marked as a crime scene and currently secured by a platoon from the Yundum Military Barracks. This was possible thanks to the determination of the OC Brikama PIU and his men, supported by Colonel Sait Njie, the Commander of Yundum Military Barracks.
On Tuesday, a first group of Gambian soldiers led by one Captain Jabang renounced from getting into Kanilai. Captain Jabang is said to have been recently reinstated in the army. With his men, they hanged at just few meters, after the Kanfenda junction, arguing that Kanilai was full of Casamance rebels. That proved not be an accurate information as Yahya Jammeh's palace in Kanilai was instead filled with dozens of Green youths under the command of one ex Major Sowe, a Jammeh loyal soldier who resigned from The Gambia Army, shortly after the Kanilai born Dictator ran away from The Gambia.
One striking fact, that drew the attention of eyewitnesses, was the red pieces of clothes tied on the guns of some men led by Captain Jabang. In our quest to understand the meaning of those red signs, we've been told that it's a confusing distinctive characteristic which motives will be surely clarified by Captain Jabang in his report to his superiors. While the situation was at stand still in the afternoon, a squad of the Police Intervention Unit led by the PIU OC of Brikama was later seen passing the military personnel stuck after the Kafenda junction. Backed by the PIU personnel Team 2 citizens of Kanilai, the Brikama police intervention team made it to the gate of Jammeh's palace. That was when the brawl ensued with pro Yahya Jammeh Ex Major Sowe's Green boys, and the subsequent appearance of some naked women from Kanilai to curse the Police personnel.
On Wednesday, Colonel Sait Njie the Commander of Yundum barracks led the military team that did not make it to Kanilai, 24 hours before. He joined the PIU troops to force their way into Jammeh's palace. After strictly cautioning their men to act as Republican police officers and military men these two brave Commanders led their respective platoons to Alakunda where the arrested Jungler took them to the location of the secret graves where Alhagie Mamut Ceesay and Ebou Jobe were buried. The place was consequently identified and marked while Col Njie posted Yundum soldiers around to guard the place pending the scientific work of the forensic team.
We cannot end this post without inviting the Barrow administration to launch any appropriate legal action to take full control of Yahya Jammeh’s Kanilai property as it becomes the hub for subversive activities by his loyal men. Since evidence exist that Jammeh unduly took public funds from the Central bank and other parastatal institutions, as well he engulfed the State into huge litigations, nothing stops the Gambia Government to freeze his assets and properties while a proper investigation is conducted.
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