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Gambia launches probe into ex-dictator's abuse

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The Gambia has on Monday launched an 11-member truth commission tasked with shedding light on summary executions, disappearances, torture, rape and other crimes under regime of ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh. 'Today marks the beginning of the much-anticipated mechanism that is expected to ensure healing, justice and proper documentation of the rights violations and abuses that took place in the previous regime,' the office of his successor president Adama Barrow said in a tweet.

 

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