By Adama Makasuba
A Gambian US-based professor has called for national healing through public like mosques and churches and family sessions.
Abdoulaye Saine was speaking to Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission to explain his research document on former president Yahya Jammeh’s 22 years rule.
Prof Saine, 69, told the TRRC yesterday: “This country needs a national therapy session in Mosques, in Churches, in families, in discussion and in lectures and sort forms to unravel this deep-seated trauma and wound- this national wound.”
He added: “Even individuals who were so conspired just because they knew about these atrocities or heard about them what I call the burden of [sic]and conscience they still are left traumatised.”
According to him, Gambians who are known for their friendly and jovial nature, started to feel sadness and living in fear since 1994 coup.
Walking in the street was nothing more but a trauma not knowing who was following you, not knowing if you going to be nabbed in the corner of the street and whizzed away and toured, he said.
Yahya Jammeh is accused of committing gross human rights crimes like killings, torture and rape. He has been living in Exile in Equatorial Guinea since losing the 2016 presidential election.
