By: The Fatu Network News Desk
The arrest of Sanna Manjang has reopened deep national wounds in The Gambia, where he is remembered as one of the most feared operatives of former president Yahya Jammeh’s Junglers, a clandestine paramilitary unit repeatedly linked in TRRC proceedings to killings, disappearances and targeted abductions.
Testimony before the TRRC by a former Jungler said Manjang was one of three soldiers who opened fire on journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004. Other witnesses and official findings have linked the Junglers, and in several accounts Manjang himself, to the disappearance of intelligence chief Daba Marena and his colleagues after a 2006 coup attempt.
The unit has also been connected to the 2005 killing of more than sixty West African migrants, the abduction and murder of two Gambian American businessmen whose remains have never been found, and the 2011 hospital death of former APRC heavyweight Baba Jobe.
By: The Fatu Network News Desk The arrest of Sanna Manjang has reopened deep national wounds in The Gambia, where he is remembered as one of the most feared operatives of former president Yahya Jammeh’s Junglers, a clandestine paramilitary unit repeatedly linked in TRRC proceedings to killings, disappearances and targeted abductions. Testimony before the TRRC The Fatu Network
