Gambians rally seeking dictator's trial for murder, rights abuses

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Hundreds of Gambians marched Saturday in the outskirts of the capital Banjul, demanding justice for sweeping rights abuses and murder they suffered under former dictator Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule.

Hundreds of Gambians marched Saturday in the outskirts of the capital Banjul, demanding justice for sweeping rights abuses and murder they suffered under former dictator Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule.

"We want justice and we want it immediately," they cried and demanding a ban on Jammeh's former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction party . The first year of hearings ended in early December, capping months of testimony about torture, murder, rape and witch hunts in the country of around two million.

 

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