The
police have exhumed four bodies secretly killed and buried in the Fonis during
the regime of Yahya Jammeh, the state TV, GRTS, reported at the weekend.
“They
were exhumed by a group of police crime and forensic experts working carefully
digging and pilling soil on a blue tarpaulin beside the trench,” the report
said.
The
exhumed bodies were four Gambian dissidents who had American nationality killed
in December 2014.
They
were accused of allegedly wanting to overthrow the government of Yahya
Jammeh. They are Col. Lamin Sanneh, who
was once state guard commander, and Njaaga Jagne, Jaja Nyass, and Dawda Bojang,
who were all former officers in the American army.
Lance
Caporal Jallow and Abdou Gaye, a businessman, were first exhumed on Wednesday,
according to media report.
Security
sources told The Point newspaper that nine jungulars were arrested last month
and are helping the police in the investigation and indicating locations of
graves of people killed during the Jammeh regime.
The
bodies exhumed are kept in the mortuary of Edward Francis Small Teaching
Hospital in Banjul.
The
police PRO, Foday Conta, said: “The exercise was the beginning of a search that
will not stop until justice is served for the families of the victims.’’
