DAKAR ¨C Speaking calmly through tears in a hearing streamed live on YouTube, former beauty queen Fatou Jallow told how former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh locked her in a room and raped her.
The 23-year-old¡¯s testimony on Thursday concluded three weeks of public hearings dedicated to sexual and gender-based violence under Jammeh¡¯s presidency, part of a broader probe by the current administration into abuses during his tenure.
¡°Yahya Jammeh did not want sex with me or pleasure with me. What he wanted to do was hurt me,¡± said Jallow, explaining that he violently assaulted her after she refused his advances.
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