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Executive ‘priviledge’? Beauty queen accuses Gambia’s former leader Yahya Jammesh of drugging and raping her while he was in power – One of many sexual allegations against dictator accused of rape, torture and death squad killings

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;"><strong>Gambian beauty queen accuses country&&num;8217&semi;s former dictator of drugging and raping her&comma; as a 19-year-old&comma; while he was in power<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;"><strong>Dictator Yahya Jammeh is facing a <&sol;strong><strong>string of claims he  coerced and induced young women into sex<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;"><strong>Fatou &&num;8216&semi;Toufah&&num;8217&semi; Jallow&comma; now 23&comma; claims he raped her four years ago while in power and is set to testify before Gambia&&num;8217&semi;s truth and reconciliation commission<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;"><strong>Jallow and other young women who spoke up say the president was a sexual predator who coerced young women into sexual relationships by promising scholarships and even putting some on the state payroll <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;">Jammeh was forced by international pressure to relinquish power despite a huge reluctance&comma; when lost in democratic elections to the current president&comma; Adama Barrow&comma; in 2016<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;">He is reportedly living a lavish but reclusive life in exile in the Island country Equatorial Guinea&comma; protected from extradition by the dictator in charge of the oil-rich country <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;1f1b1b&semi;">Gambian authorities estimated that Jammeh and his associates fled the country with up to &dollar;1 billion in funds from the state coffers<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-322224" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;06&sol;Yahya-Jammeh-2&period;png" alt&equals;"Yahya Jammeh 2" width&equals;"682" height&equals;"436" &sol;><&sol;strong><strong>Dictator accused of torture and death&comma; is he also a rapistIs he a rapist&quest; former Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb; has been accused of rape by a former beauty queen during his time in power<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">A Gambian beauty queen recalls the lecture to her and other contestants from that country&&num;8217&semi;s ruler at her crowning&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Do not rush to marry&&num;8217&semi;&comma; he said&comma; but use the pageant’s scholarship prize to fulfill your dreams&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Five years later&comma; the beauty pageant winner has accused the country&&num;8217&semi;s former dictator Yahya Jammeh of raping her four years ago&comma; the latest allegation of human rights abuses committed by the ex-president now living in exile in Equatorial Guinea&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fatou &&num;8216&semi;Toufah&&num;8217&semi; Jallow&comma; now 23&comma; made an announcement to journalists Tuesday and said she plans to testify later this year before Gambia&&num;8217&semi;s truth and reconciliation commission&comma; which is investigating abuses committed under the Jammeh government&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<iframe style&equals;"width&colon; 120px&semi; height&colon; 240px&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;ws-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;widgets&sol;q&quest;ServiceVersion&equals;20070822&amp&semi;OneJS&equals;1&amp&semi; 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07V9YHKS4HY556H67002&amp&semi;f&equals;ifr&amp&semi;lc&equals;pf4&amp&semi;linkID&equals;b201c7d221c36bec871177c26785085d&amp&semi;t&equals; konniemomen0a-20&amp&semi;tracking&lowbar;id&equals;konniemomen0a-20" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"250" frameborder&equals;"0" marginwidth&equals;"0" scrolling&equals;"no"><&sol;iframe><br &sol;>&NewLine;Jammeh who had Gambia under his thumb for 22 years&comma; is accused of ordering opponents tortured&comma; jailed and killed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The sexual abuse allegations raised by Jallow and others directly implicate him in personally committing violence against Gambians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-322227" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;06&sol;Fatou-Toufah-Jallow-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fatou 'Toufah' Jallow 2" width&equals;"2048" height&equals;"1348" &sol;>Fatou &&num;8216&semi;Toufah&&num;8217&semi; Jallow&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; just 18 when she<span class&equals;"css-8i9d0s e13ogyst0" aria-hidden&equals;"true"> won a beauty pageant in Gambia in 2014&comma; says she was raped by Yahya Jammeh&comma; then the nation’s president<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>Jallow and other young women interviewed by Human Rights Watch say the president was a sexual predator who coerced young women into sexual relationships by promising scholarships and even putting some on the state payroll&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Jammeh is reportedly living a lavish but reclusive life in exile in Equatorial Guinea&comma; where he is protected from extradition by the dictator in charge of the oil-rich country&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jallow&comma; who wanted to come forward publicly&comma; said the president began lavishing gifts on her and her family after meeting her when she was crowned queen of the Miss July 22 Pageant as an 18-year-old back in 2014&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jammeh took a special interest in her&comma; she said&comma; ordering the utility company to install running water at her mother&&num;8217&semi;s home&comma; and having his cousin purchase the family expensive furniture&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;While initially he expressed interest in funding her charity project&comma; she said that Jammeh&comma; a married man that she considered a mentor&comma; asked for her hand in marriage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-322223" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;06&sol;Fatou-Toufah-Jallow-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Fatou 'Toufah' Jallow 1" width&equals;"772" height&equals;"533" &sol;>&grave;No woman has ever rejected me&period; And who do you think you are&quest;&&num;8217&semi;&comma; Jallow now 23&comma; claimed Jammeh told her&comma; before he drugged and raped her&comma; four years ago&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">After she declined&comma; he told her that as the pageant winner she had to attend an event at his official residence&comma; State House&comma; ahead of the holy month of Ramadan&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Once there&comma; she said she was locked in a room and drugged by the president himself&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;He told me&comma; &grave;No woman has ever rejected me&period; And who do you think you are&quest;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;His face changed&comma; his eyes were so red&comma; different from the man before&period; He said&comma; &grave;No woman rejects me&period; You think you can get away with it&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;As she tried to leave&comma; Jallow said the president told her&colon; &&num;8216&semi;If you make any move&comma; I will kill you with my own hands&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The president then drugged her&comma; shoved his genitals in her face and raped her before she blacked out&comma; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Several days later she told her family she was going to the market to shop&comma; and then fled to neighboring Senegal&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ronmat96&period;gaming777&period;hop&period;clickbank&period;net"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamingjobsonline&period;com&sol;images&sol;banner&sol;banner728x90&period;jpg" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;Jammeh had told her he wanted to talk about her beauty pageant project — a drama program for students on eliminating poverty&period; Then he offered her a job as one of his protocol officers&comma; who performed secretarial work at the statehouse&period; She was only 18&comma; she told him&comma; and did not feel qualified to work in a president’s office&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Later&comma; reports emerged in the Gambian diaspora media that Mr&period; Jammeh had been <a class&equals;"css-1g7m0tk" title&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;fatunetwork&period;net&sol;more-revelations-about-president-jammehs-sex-exploits-of-young-gambian-girl&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">using his &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;protocol girls” for sexual favors<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Advocates with Human Rights Watch and Trial International&comma; took testimony from two former protocol officers who said that sex with the president had been part of the job&period; One woman&comma; who chose to remain anonymous because she is afraid of retribution from Jammeh’s supporters&comma; said in her testimony that when she was 23&comma; she was given cash and gifts for having sex with him&comma; and that he told her that if she refused he would cut off the financial support he was giving her family&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Jammeh reportedly&comma; exploited young Gambian girls&comma; many of them teenagers employed as Protocol Officers attached to the Office of the President&period; Most of the girls are housed in a complex a few meters away from the president&&num;8217&semi;s house where they said they are perpetually trapped and are always on standby to satisfy the President’s unusually high appetite for sex with young girls&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;fatunetwork&period;net&sol;more-revelations-about-president-jammehs-sex-exploits-of-young-gambian-girl&sol;">Fatu Radio<&sol;a> in 2015 documented how young virgin  were lured into sexual relationship with the President where they are dis-virgined and their blood used for rituals&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Two of the victims of this scary encounter later escaped to safety in a neighboring countries where they have received counseling and treated for trauma with related problems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-322228" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;06&sol;Yahya-Jammeh-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Yahya Jammeh 3" width&equals;"2048" height&equals;"1365" &sol;>Accused of being an insatiable sexual predator&colon; Jammeh has been accused of forcing several women into sex by promising scholarships and even putting some on the state payroll<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Jammeh later lost the 2016 election to now President Adama Barrow&period; After initially refusing to accept his defeat&comma; Jammeh succumbed to international pressure&comma; stepped down from office and fled to Equatorial Guinea&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ronmat96&period;fxexperts&period;hop&period;clickbank&period;net&sol;"><img class&equals;"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;www&period;wallstreet-forex&period;com&sol;images&sol;banners&sol;wsfr&lowbar;2&lowbar;evolution&lowbar;768x90&lowbar;1&period;jpg&quest;zoom&equals;1&period;100000023841858&amp&semi;w&equals;620&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"72" data-recalc-dims&equals;"1" data-lazy-loaded&equals;"1" &sol;><&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;Gambia&&num;8217&semi;s new administration has estimated that Jammeh and his associates fled with up to &dollar;1 billion in funds from the state coffers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The truth and reconciliation commission does not have the powers to prosecute but will make recommendations for the Attorney General Chambers to act on a number of cases that may be taken up with the court&period; Jammeh for now remains untouchable in exile&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s going to take a lot of heavy political lifting to pry him out of Equatorial Guinea&comma;&&num;8217&semi; said Reed Brody&comma; counsel at Human Rights Watch who led the investigation into the allegations of sexual abuse&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Gambia’s reconciliation process has put a special focus on women who endured beatings or sexual violence by the Jammeh regime’s security officers&comma; or who were impoverished after their husbands were locked up&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 2018 a series of women-only listening circles brought victims together to share privately their traumatic experiences and encourage them to speak out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<iframe style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;rcm-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;cm&quest;o&equals;1&amp&semi;p&equals;26&amp&semi;l&equals;ur1&amp&semi;category&equals;mac&amp&semi;banner&equals; 0B8GZEK7X9JN15T1BPR2&amp&semi;f&equals;ifr&amp&semi;linkID&equals;45959116a9033f86cc6e50c96ca7a649&amp&semi;t&equals; konniemomen0a-20&amp&semi;tracking&lowbar;id&equals;konniemomen0a-20" width&equals;"468" height&equals;"60" frameborder&equals;"0" marginwidth&equals;"0" scrolling&equals;"no"><&sol;iframe><iframe style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi;" src&equals;"&sol;&sol;rcm-na&period;amazon-adsystem&period;com&sol;e&sol;cm&quest;o&equals;1&amp&semi;p&equals;13&amp&semi;l&equals;ur1&amp&semi;category&equals;ftve&amp&semi;banner&equals; 1JX69XZRZPPC60X6CER2&amp&semi;f&equals;ifr&amp&semi;linkID&equals;7846cb82aa732ce804c932bb4637cb18&amp&semi;t&equals; konniemomen0a-20&amp&semi;tracking&lowbar;id&equals;konniemomen0a-20" width&equals;"468" height&equals;"60" frameborder&equals;"0" marginwidth&equals;"0" scrolling&equals;"no"><&sol;iframe><br &sol;>&NewLine;Jallow received asylum in Canada in 2015&comma; and she is scheduled to testify before the commission during hearings on sexual violence later this year&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She is currently undergoing therapy and hopes other young women victimized by Jammeh will come forward&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Nobody discusses rape and yes&comma; I am scared&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she said&period; &&num;8216&semi;I am scared&period; But I want the next person after me to be a little less scared than me&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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