Today marks 18 years when 16 Gambian children and a Red Cross volunteer were gunned to death by the security forces of the Gambia on the orders of the civilian authorities of the time led by Yaya Jammeh. The only reason why there has not been any form of justice[Read More…]
Opinion
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: Remembering The April 10/11 Student Massacre
‘Roaming the night’s streets’ stuck in my mind since high school is this passage which I memorized during our study of Alex la Guma’s “A Walk in the Night.” “I am thy father’s spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confined to fast[Read More…]
New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: April 10th & 11th 2000 Student Massacre Deserves National Day Prayers
Fatoumatta: Why must Gambian remember April 10/11, 2000 Student Massacre with a National Day of Prayers: So, no one will ever again have to lose their lives, something that has happened decades ago with impunity. The lives lost through targeted political violence and collateral damage in the line of political[Read More…]
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