The TRRC has not been empowered to prosecute those responsible for crimes.

In April 2020 the TRRC published an interim report describing rights violations under Jammeh as 'massive, appalling and diverse' including torture, extrajudicial killings, rape, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and detention. Reed Brody, an American lawyer calling for Jammeh to be prosecuted, said in a tweet that the postponement was announced 'to the frustration of victims'. Witnesses gave chilling evidence about state-sanctioned torture, death squads, rape and witch hunts, often at the hands of the 'Junglers,' who acted as Jammeh's death squads. Styled on the lines of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the TRRC heard testimony from nearly 400 people from January 2019 to May 2021 on Jammeh's 22-year dictatorship. The TRRC was set up in 2017 following Jammeh's defeat to Barrow in elections in December 2016.Īfter a six-week standoff that ended in military intervention by neighbouring countries, Jammeh flew to Equatorial Guinea. 'It is the expectation of the Commission that work on these remaining volumes should be finished shortly.' The TRRC issued a statement saying, 'Work on the sixteen volumes comprising the Final Report has been completed, except for four volumes. 'We are not yet ready,' a member of the commission told AFP. But the final report - which was initially scheduled to be released in July - will now be unveiled at a later date.

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