{"id":63119,"date":"2024-08-12T06:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad"},"modified":"2024-08-12T06:18:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:18:57","slug":"gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad","title":{"rendered":"Gambia Arrests Ex-General, Suspected Member of Death Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Gambian military said Saturday it had arrested a former general who was an alleged member of a death squad under former dictator Yahya Jammeh.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Former brigadier general Bora Colley is alleged to have belonged to a paramilitary unit nicknamed the \u201cJunglers\u201d which has long been accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings and torture by the United Nations and rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEx-General Colley was arrested on Friday 9 August 2024 around midnight when he voluntarily surrendered himself to the GAF Military Police in Yundum Barracks,\u201d near the capital Banjul, the Gambia Armed Forces said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence services had conducted surveillance operations around his residence in Banjul on the day of his arrest, the statement said.Colley \u201cis currently detained and cooperating with the Military Police in their investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Gambian government in 2022 endorsed the recommendations of a commission that looked into atrocities perpetrated under Jammeh, with authorities agreeing to prosecute 70 people, including the former president, who came to power following a coup in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Jammeh, whose 22-year rule of the tiny West African country was marked by numerous human rights violations, lost the presidential election in December 2016 to opposition leader Adama Barrow.<\/p>\n<p>He fled the country in January 2017 for Equatorial Guinea, where he finally conceded and handed over power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Gambia Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The Gambian military said Saturday it had arrested a former general who was an alleged member of a death squad under former dictator Yahya Jammeh. Former brigadier general Bora Colley is alleged to have belonged to a paramilitary unit nicknamed the \u201cJunglers\u201d which has long been accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":63118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-63119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gambia Arrests Ex-General, Suspected Member of Death Squad - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Gambian military said Saturday it had arrested a former general who was an alleged member of a death squad under ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gambia Arrests Ex-General, Suspected Member of Death Squad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Gambian military said Saturday it had arrested a former general who was an alleged member of a death squad under ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-12T06:07:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-12T06:18:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/sm_1723430833.486176.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gambia Arrests Ex-General, Suspected Member of Death Squad\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-12T06:07:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-12T06:18:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad\"},\"wordCount\":228,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/08\/sm_1723430833.486176.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-arrests-ex-general-suspected-member-of-death-squad\",\"name\":\"Gambia Arrests Ex-General, Suspected Member of Death Squad - 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