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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>In a small fishing village outside of the Senegalese capital, Ismaila Diene and his wife on Tuesday said goodbye to their youngest son, killed last week during protests that have shaken the country.<\/b><\/p>\n

The grieving couple don\u2019t want to lay the blame on anyone, and as for many of the 16 people killed in Senegal\u2019s worst spasm of political violence in years, the circumstances of 33-year-old Doudou Diene\u2019s death is shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n

Ismaila, a retired teacher, says the family got the call late on Friday that their son was in hospital and had been shot. He died about six hours later.<\/p>\n

They spoke to Doudou on the phone and, as is tradition in Senegal before dying, \u201che asked his mother and I for forgiveness. I don\u2019t know under what circumstances he was shot,\u201d said Ismaila.<\/p>\n

Doudou was married, with a 14-month-old baby, and had two brothers and a sister.<\/p>\n

The fishing village of Bargny, around 30 kilometres from the capital Dakar, was one of the sites hit by angry protests after firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of \u201ccorrupting\u201d a young woman.<\/p>\n

The verdict is likely to make Sonko ineligible to run in 2024 presidential elections, and the former tax inspector alleges the charges were a conspiracy to halt his rising political star.<\/p>\n

Bargny, with its sandy paths weaving between faded homes, paid a heavy price, with three killed in the protests, according to several municipal officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoudou didn\u2019t take part in the protests, or in politics,\u201d said his weeping mother, Mbene Mbeye, dressed in a white headdress and flowing robes.<\/p>\n

The government and opposition blame each other for the deaths.<\/p>\n

The opposition points to harsh repression of the protests, while the government denounced a planned destabilisation effort by \u201cdark forces,\u201d foreigners, and armed men.<\/p>\n

When the police asked Ismaila what he plans to do, he said he would file a complaint.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that there will be justice, because there are things that cannot go unpunished,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLosing a child is a terrible emotional shock. Either way, justice will be done, if it is not at the hands of men, it will be in the afterlife.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet justice be done. Innocent people are dying. It\u2019s not normal,\u201d said Doudou\u2019s mother, also a retired teacher, shortly before leaving for the mosque for the funeral prayer.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of relatives and neighbours gathered at a green mosque where the coffin was laid.<\/p>\n

After about ten minutes of tributes, the silent procession of men took the path to the cemetery, on the edge of the town.<\/p>\n

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