New research reveals scars of Gambia's witch hunts
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The book “Before Zugarramurdi” documents for the first time the campaign against witchcraft, which advanced eighty years to Logroño’s auto de fe
New research reveals scars of Jammeh’s witch hunts
The research, led by Professor Mick Finlay of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in collaboration with the University of The Gambia and Nottingham Trent University, is the first academic study into the stigma associated with government-led witchcraft accusations, and includes interviews with victims and their families from the villages most affected by the campaign. Jammeh’s 22-year dictatorship, which ended in 2016, was marked by human rights abuse…
The legacy of persecution organised between 2008 and 2009 against the sorcerers under the Jammeh regime still attracts the attention of human rights defenders. Yayha Jammeh, a fervent "believer of Islam", believed and feared also occult practices such as sanctity and witchcraft. In power until 2017 and now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea, Yahya Jammeh is accused of a vast campaign of persecution targeted populations accused of witchcraft.
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