{"id":949,"date":"2019-09-05T12:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/the-gambia-twenty-years-later-student-victims-are-still-demanding-justice"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:07:03","slug":"the-gambia-twenty-years-later-student-victims-are-still-demanding-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/the-gambia-twenty-years-later-student-victims-are-still-demanding-justice","title":{"rendered":"The Gambia: Twenty years later, student victims are still demanding justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in The Gambia took a break to go and meet the diaspora, it started to hear testimonies on the repression of a student protest that led to the death of at least fourteen students in 2000. Victims expressed their frustration and sense of abandonment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sira Barry lied on her bedside in a modest two-bedroom house in Brikama, about an hour drive from Banjul, Gambia\u2019s capital city. At her parlor to the left was a bed and a chair to welcome guests. She was lying on a mat. She was sick and could not talk to journalists. Sira, fondly called Suba, is the only surviving direct member of the family of Ebrima Barry, a student allegedly beaten to death by members of the Gambia Fire and Rescue Services in 2000. Barry\u2019s death prompted a demonstration that cost their lives to at least 14 students. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our family, we have not seen any investigation report, we have not heard of any arrest in connection to our brother\u2019s death. And we have not had any compensation from the state,\u201d said Alagie Barry, a brother of Ebrima of a different mother, declining to make any further comment. He said their family delegated to Alagie\u2019s brother Mbemba Barry, a police officer, to speak on their behalf. Alagie and Ebrima shared the same father Alieu Barry, who had four wives. Alieu died in 2006, without seeing justice for his son. Ebrima\u2019s mother, Boto Sanneh, died in 2002. Ebrima\u2019s four other siblings from Alieu and Boto followed him to the grave without any promise of justice being fulfilled. \u201cThey all died after the death of Ebrima,\u201d said Alagie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/truth-commissions\/42317-gambia-twenty-years-later-student-victims-are-still-crying-out-for-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the whole article<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"simple-translate\">\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in The Gambia took a break to go and meet the diaspora, it started to hear testimonies on the repression of a student protest that led to the death of at least fourteen students in 2000. Victims expressed their frustration and sense of abandonment. Sira Barry lied on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":6337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[239,303],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-media","tag-how-we-work-information-dialogue","tag-expertise-justice-and-reconciliation"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 00:12:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hirondelle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}