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|origin=Kanilai, | |Image = Yahya Jammeh 2.jpg | ||
| | |fullname = Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh | ||
|alias = Babili Mansa<br>Great Bridge Builder<br>Conqueror of Rivers<br>Nasirul Deen | |||
|type of villain= | |origin = Kanilai, The Gambia | ||
| | |occupation = President of the Gambia (1996 - 2017)<br>Chairman of the [[Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council]] (1994 - 1996) | ||
| | |type of villain = Sadistic Tyrant | ||
'''Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh''', better known as Yahya Jammeh (born May 25, 1965) is a Gambian military and politician. He was President of the Republic of the Gambia from July 22, 1994, to January 18, 2017. During his long and controversial term, he was accused of numerous human rights violations, restricting press freedom, and violently repressing to the LGBT community. | |goals = | ||
|crimes = Human rights violations<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>Rape<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Kidnapping]]<br>[[Authoritarianism]]<br>[[Censorship]]<br>[[Arson]]<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Arms trafficking]]<br>[[Drug trafficking]]<br>[[Money laundering]] | |||
|hobby = }}{{Quote|If you do it [in the Gambia] I will slit your throat – if you are a man and want to marry another man in this country and we catch you, no one will ever set eyes on you again, and no white person can do anything about it.|Yahya Jammeh}} | |||
'''Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh''', better known as '''Yahya Jammeh''' (born May 25, 1965) is a Gambian military officer and politician. He was President of the Republic of the Gambia from July 22, 1994, to January 18, 2017. During his long and controversial term, he was accused of numerous human rights violations, restricting press freedom, and violently repressing to the LGBT community. | |||
On January 19 and 20, 2017, he served as | On January 19 and 20, 2017, he served as ''de facto'' president, refusing to cede power to the new president, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adama_Barrow Adama Barrow], who had defeated him in the 2016 presidential elections, who had to take office in [[exile]]. After hours of negotiation and in the face of international pressure and the threat of a military intervention to evict him by ECOWAS, he announced his decision to step down from power in a statement released on January 21. That same day at night he left the Gambia to go into exile to Equatorial Guinea. | ||
== Biography == | == Biography == | ||
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In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to government detention centres where they were forced to drink poisonous hallucinogenic substances.[64][65] On 21 May 2009, The New York Times reported that the alleged witch-hunting campaign had been sparked by the President Yahya Jammeh, who believed that the death of his aunt earlier that year could be attributed to witchcraft. | In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to government detention centres where they were forced to drink poisonous hallucinogenic substances.[64][65] On 21 May 2009, The New York Times reported that the alleged witch-hunting campaign had been sparked by the President Yahya Jammeh, who believed that the death of his aunt earlier that year could be attributed to witchcraft. | ||
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