Gambie: Sanna Manjang, ex-membre d'escadrons de la mort, inculpé du meurtre en 2004 d'un correspondant de l'AFP
A former member of death squads in Gambia, Sanna Manjang, was charged on Wednesday with the December 2004 murder of the AFP correspondent in the country at the time, an AFP journalist present at the court in Banjul observed.
Sanna Manjang was arrested on Saturday in Senegal during a joint security operation, then transferred to Gambia on Tuesday.
He was charged on Wednesday by Gambian justice with the murder of two people, including Deyda Hydara who had been AFP's correspondent in Gambia for 30 years when he fell under the bullets of killers in Banjul on December 16, 2004.
According to the court document, Mr. Manjang is charged with the murder of Mr. Hydara in 2004 and of a businessman, Ndongo Mboob, in 2006. He is accused of "causing their deaths by shooting them with a weapon".
According to Gambian authorities, Sanna Manjang, considered a fugitive for several years, is a former member of the "Junglers" ("bushmen"), the death squads of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh, a paramilitary group tasked with intimidating or eliminating any form of opposition.
Mr. Jammeh ruled with an iron fist from 1994 to 2017 Gambia, a small English-speaking country surrounded by Senegal except for its maritime frontage.
Sanna Manjang was cited in the findings of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) "for his central role in the torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions perpetrated by the Junglers", according to the Gambian government.
Aged around sixty and a father of four, Deyda Hydara had worked for AFP since 1974, first as a translator, then as a journalist.
Co-founder of the private newspaper The Point, he was often critical of power, elite corruption, and attacks on press freedom.
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Que les autorités gambiennes aient le courage et la volonté d'enclencher le processus d'extradition de JAMMEH afin de le traduire en justice pour réparer moralement les tords subis par les victimes
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