Essa Faal insisted on Friday ‘justice must happen’ as he disclosed over 200 people were killed during former President Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years rule.
The TRRC which has been investigating the former dictator’s disastrous 22 years rule ended its public hearings on Friday after more than two years.
And in a powerful closing statement, the probe’s lead attorney Essa Faal said: “Between 220 murders and 250 murders occurred in this country during Jammeh’s rule, attributable to Jammeh. And that is not the enforced disappeared. All what I’ve heard tells me crime against humanity, crimes against humanity, crimes against humanity.
“And the forum to deal with that is not only limited in Gambia. It could be Gambia, it could be Ghana, it could be West Africa, it could be somewhere in Africa, it could be the ICC.
“So no matter how people deny, no matter how one may control what could happen in Gambia, that same institution cannot control what happens outside or elsewhere. We have Hissene Habre. He’s ran away for 20-something years, he had to face the law. Justice must happen.”
