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Hungarian-American international human rights lawyer and prosecutor, Reed Brody, has said that the arrest of Sanna Manjang is a pivotal advance for accountability following the arrest of the most talked about Jungler in Casamance, Southern Senegal.
“Former Junglers have repeatedly identified him as a central actor in some of the Jammeh regime’s worst atrocities — from the assassination of Deyda Hydara and the killings of Haruna Jammeh, Daba Marenah and Dawda Nyassi, to the massacre of West African migrants, the execution of detainees, and systematic torture,” he told this medium.
Brody added that his detention opens a real path toward long-overdue justice for victims and families who have waited far too long for answers.
According to him, if Manjang chooses to cooperate, Manjang’s testimony could be profoundly damaging for Yahya Jammeh. It may shed new light on how these operations were planned, who gave the orders, and how the Junglers carried them out — reinforcing the already well-established evidence of Jammeh’s command role.
“And in several disappearances, including the migrant massacre, Manjang may quite literally be able to indicate where the victims were buried.”
