By Lamin Njie
The TRRC today ended its public hearings in Jambur with dozens of natives giving harrowing accounts of what they went through in the hands of ritualists who stormed Jambur in 2009 in their hunt for witches.
Women, as old as 90 years, detailed how they were stripped and bathed by young boys. They also explained how the witch-doctors forced them to drink disgusting liquids which has since caused the death of many victims. Those alive have health complications.
Dozens of men were also not spared as they were also arrested and taken to Kololi where they were also forced to drink a bitter liquid.
Next week, the TRRC will take its public hearings to Sibanor in Foni Bintang Karanai.
Former President Jammeh’s 2009 witch-hunt exercise began in Foni with hundreds of people reported to have been kidnapped, beaten and forced to drink concoctions. Many have since succumbed.
The exercise was carried in almost all Foni villages and Sintet is said to have been hit hardest by the exercise.
In Batabut Kantora, older natives spend the entire day in the bush in an attempt to evade the ritualists.
