TRRC chairman Dr Lamin J Sise on Monday took time out to address citizens that his probe is just out to create an impartial record of the human rights violations and abuses of the past government.
“Can I remind you all that we’re here to create an impartial record, violations and abuses of human rights from July 1994 to January 2017,” Dr Sise said amid a huge back and forth between Monday’s witness Lang Tombong Tamba and Essa Faal.
LTT and Essa Faal treated themselves to a messy showdown where the duo fired at each other with the TRRC chairman having to intervene every now and then.
Dr Sise insisted as Monday’s proceedings drew to a close his probe is just out “to provide victims an opportunity to relay their own account of the violations and abuses”.
“We are here to ask questions and witnesses answer for the record, not here to conduct what essentially took place today, it sound like a seminar on telling the people how things are done here, what’s been said by somebody else.
“We’re not here interpreting any of those things. We cannot be sort of taken a way from what is the focus of our work and mandate really. We’ll have to do a bit of preparatory work not to repeat today’s proceedings,” Dr Sise said.
