Wednesday marks 25 years since the November 11, 1994 execution of eleven officers of the army after they were accused of plotting a counter coup against the new junta government of Yahya Jammeh.
Former Yundum barracks commander Basirou Barrow was killed alongside at least 10 others following their arrest over a suspected coup plot.
In April last year, the junta’s vice president Sana Sabally took responsibility for the killings telling the TRRC ‘I’m the commander on the ground and I gave the orders’. Some were shot and killed in either at Yundum Barracks or Fajara Barracks shortly after their arrest.
“The rest of the group, when we came back the next day, we got the ringleaders, we took them to the Brikama range, not exactly at the Brikama range but the forest and we shot them and brought them back to Yundum Barracks for burial,” Sabally told the TRRC.
