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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Sexual violence means, according to the TRRC report, any non-consensual sexual act, a threat or attempt to perform such an act, or compelling someone else to perform such an act on or with a third person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese acts are considered as non-consensual when they involve violence, the threat of violence, or coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ninth session of the public hearings of the Truth Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) held from October 14 -31, 2019, revealed that the 22 year rule of Yahya Abdul Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh (Yahya A.J.J.Jammeh) as President of The Gambia was characterised by widespread sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), according to the report<\/p>\n

\u201cSexual violence was often perpetrated either as the main objective of certain human rights violations or it was used as an instrument of repression, torture and punishment. Across The Gambia, females were disproportionately affected by violations including sexual violence, torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, arbitrary arrest, detention and forced labour.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the more appalling incidents examined by the Commission include (i) the sexual violence and abuse of participants of scholarship pageants and \u201cprotocol girls\u201d; (ii) rape and sexualized torture by state security officials of male and female detainees; (iii) violations committed as part of the infamous purge of \u201cwitchcraft\u201d and (iv) sexual violence during \u201cthe Presidential Alternative Treatment Programme.\u201d (PATP).\u201d<\/p>\n

The document states that these violations were perpetrated mainly by security agents and former government officials. \u201cThe Commission received credible evidence that former President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh himself, committed some of the most egregious of these violations against women and girls through a \u201csophisticated system\u201d using state institutions and resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

On SGBV by former President Jammeh: \u201cThe Commission heard from victims and witnesses and received credible submissions that Former President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh and his senior officials raped, sexually assaulted, sexually exploited and also subjected women and girls to other forms of sexual violence. These violations were committed in various locations, including in the premises of the State House of The Gambia and at Jammeh\u2019s home in Kanilai.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFormer President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh orchestrated a system of using state institutions and officials to have access to young girls which enabled him to exploit and sexually abuse them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commission heard how former President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh targeted young girls who came from poor families and would entice them with gifts, promise of scholarships to study abroad, propose marriage and promised support for their impoverished families. He targeted students who took part in the \u201c22nd July Beauty Pageant\u201d and that he established a system of recruiting young women as \u201cProtocol girls\u201d who were sexually exploited. They would travel with him; some were housed within the State House compound and they were on the state payroll as State House employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the girls were required to go into Jammeh\u2019s room and he sexually abused them. The Commission was told that he \u2013the former President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh did not use protection when he raped the women (some were consensual) which led to several women falling pregnant. When he came to know they were pregnant, they were required to abort the pregnancies, they were fired from their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commission received credible testimonies and submissions that former President Yahya A.J.J Jammeh\u2019s relative, Jimbee Jammeh, who also served as one of his aides at the State House, played a key role in this system of exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2016, she was appointed Deputy Chief of Protocol. The Commission heard that at times Jimbee Jammeh physically brought the women to Jammeh, even into his private bedroom and on several occasions, threatened those who refused to be with Jammeh and that she was present or nearby when the women were being raped or assaulted by him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was said to have forced some of the women to abort their pregnancies resulting from the rapes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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