By Lamin Njie
Lieutenant Colonel Babucarr Sanyang of the Gambia Armed Forces has told the TRRC he thought Mile Two was the fate of a group of officers who were linked to a coup plot in November 1994.
At least six middle-ranking officers of the Gambian army were arrested in November 1994 after they were accused of of trying to overthrow former president Yahya Jammeh’s government. They were briefly detained at Yundum Barracks before being taking to a forest in Brikama and killed.
“When the Land Rover was packed and then the officers were asked to board and they took them, for me I thought they were going to Mile Two because at that time Mile Two was the order of the day,” Sanyang told the TRRC.
According to Sanyang, the operation which saw the execution of officers like Gibril Seye, Bakary Manneh and Abdoulie Bah was led by then army captain and vice chairman of the APPRC government Sanna Sabally.
