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Jungler: Jammeh’s hit squad killed journalist Deyda Hydara
22 JulBy Modou S. Joof
President Yahya Jammeh’s hit squad, the Junglers, killed journalist Deyda Dydara, the Gambia Truth Commission heard on Monday.
An ex-member of the autocratic leader’s assassin team, Malick Jatta, said he and three other assassins fired the gunshots that killed the journalist on December 16, 2004.
Hydara was co-founder of The Point newspaper, and a correspondent of Agence France-Presse, AFP and Reporters Without Borders, RSF. He was known to be a fierce critic of Jammeh and his tyranny and had questioned his desire to prolong his stay in power. Continue reading