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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Fatou Jatta, a victim of Yahya Jammeh\u2019s HIV\/AIDS treatment, has recounted how her 7-year-old son was forced to drink concoction during the former president\u2019s controversial witch-hunt exercise that caused 41 deaths. The truth commission has established that Jammeh, Solo Bojang, the security forces, witch hunters and Green Boys are individually and collectively responsible for ordering the persecution, arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, inhumane and degrading and sexual gender-based violence treatment of victims.<\/p>\n Addressing journalists at Jammeh2Justice press conference last week, Madam Jatta, who said she was part of Jammeh\u2019s first batch of HIV\/AIDS patients, recounted her terrible experience with Jammeh which included helplessly watching her son being forced to drink a concoction to prove whether he was a witch or not.<\/p>\n \u201cOne day, Jammeh just came and said some of us are in fact witches and because of that, we were forced to drink concoction. My seven-year-old boy was also forced to drink the concoction and from that day until we left the treatment room, he would cry whenever he saw people in uniform. That was emotionally torturing for me. This was not fair because an innocent child was forced to drink the concoctions. It was a terrifying experience,\u201d Jatta said.<\/p>\n She said when they were entering the treatment, they were told they would be cured in three to nine months. \u201cJammeh took advantage of the fact that Gambians were scared of him and did whatever he wanted. The worst thing is that Jammeh would ask us to undress naked and he would touch us everywhere including our private parts. It was so horrible that I wanted God to just take my life because I never wanted to return to society with the trauma and experience,\u201d a tearful Jatta recounted.<\/p>\n At some point, she added, patients who were in critical conditions were left to die because the nurses refused to attend to them. \u201cThey would ask us to wait for our doctors. We were subjected to so many things including cooking and other things including working on Jammeh\u2019s farm in Kanilai. We didn\u2019t like it but we could not resist Jammeh,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Source: The Gambia | Standard News From The Gambia<\/b><\/p>\n For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Omar Bah Africa-Press – Gambia. Fatou Jatta, a victim of Yahya Jammeh\u2019s HIV\/AIDS treatment, has recounted how her 7-year-old son was forced to drink concoction during the former president\u2019s controversial witch-hunt exercise that caused 41 deaths. The truth commission has established that Jammeh, Solo Bojang, the security forces, witch hunters and Green Boys are individually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8],"tags":[2355,2361,6965,260,4660],"class_list":["post-17331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-drink-concoction","tag-gambia","tag-hiv"],"yoast_head":"\n