Bringing Jammeh to justice

摘要

WHEN JENEBA heard that Yahya Jam-meh, then president of the Gambia, had found a cure for aids, she tossed away her medicines and signed up for his treatment programme. Every morning she and hundreds of others went to his private clinic. The president, dressed in white and often waving a Koran, would massage creams into her face. Nurses gave her a foul-tasting concoction. Soon patients began disappearing from their hospital beds. "We all suffered from terrible sickness and diarrhoea," says Jeneba (not her real name). "At least 20 of my friends died that way."