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GAMBIA: TABARA SAMBA WAS REPEATEDLY RAPED BEFORE SHE WAS EXECUTED
September 4, 2012: The Gambian website Freedomnewspaper reported that Tabara Samba, one of nine people executed in Gambia on August 23, was raped by soldiers on the orders of President Jammeh, before being put to death.
Tabara, a citizen of Senegal, was sentenced to death for killing her husband - a Gambian - pouring boiling oil on him while he slept.
It seems that appeals to save the life of the offender, including those signed by the Federation of African Journalists and the Union of Pan-African lawyers, have particularly irritated President Jammeh, who in retaliation urged the soldiers called to attend executions to rape Tabara Samba. The rape happened in front of police officers, a judge, and some doctors, maybe Cuban.
After the beatings and rape, the woman was killed by lethal injection. The soldiers then dismembered her body, throwing the remains in a common grave, denying families the opportunity to bury it in a cemetery.
The Gambian Minister of the Interior, Lamine Jobareth, had no words of criticism for what happened. "People like Tabara Samba - said - do not deserve to live another day. Which country could accept what he had done? ". (Sources: freedomnewspaper.com, 04/09/2012, Il Giornale, 07/09/2012)
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