“The regime of President Macky Sall was fatal for the Senegalese population and the diaspora,” said Boubacar Seye and his comrades. “The repression during his reign cost the lives of more than 80 people, not counting the thousands of young people who disappeared in the Mediterranean, following threats and persecution which forced them to risk their lives at sea,” they continued.
In their letter of denunciation, the members of the said collective believe that "this diabolical system of governance based on terror, torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, crimes and cruel acts carried out on the physical and psychological integrity of populations not armed and defenseless constitute acts of crimes against humanity in accordance with Article 7 of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court.”
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