TRRC chairman Dr Lamin J Sise on Monday slammed Yahya Jammeh’s HIV/AIDS cure saying it constituted a gross violation and abuse of the human rights of those who underwent the treatment programme.
Speaking as the TRRC resumed its public hearings, Dr Sise insisted it was mendacious on the part of the former president to claim he could cure HIV.
“These unfortunate souls, the majority of them citizens of The Gambia, were victims of the State who were lured into the PATP, having been told that the President of The Republic of The Gambia could cure HIV/AIDS, the ailment afflicting these individuals. It was a brazen and mendacious claim! The treatment, in all its manifestations, constituted a gross violation and abuse of the human rights of these patients,” Dr Sise said.
He then named 31 people who died either during the treatment programme or shortly after leaving it.
It came even as the leading medical doctor who supported former President Jammeh in the programme Dr Tamsir Mbowe told the TRRC the cure was true.
