The #Gambia, July 22nd, 2020 - 15 years since the massacre of over 50 West African migrants, en route to Europe, by Gambian security forces loyal to then-President Yahya Jammeh. 44 of the migrants were Ghanaian. Image: Ghanaian, Martin Kyere, is the sole known survivor of the 2005 massacre _ “When one of the soldiers used his cutlass to cut off Adamo’s shoulder and the blood is flowing all over the place…I think we realized then, that the soldiers wanted to kill us all.” _ After their capture, the migrants were badly beaten and then split into two groups and handed over to the Junglers, Jammeh’s hit squad. Over one week, the Junglers summarily executed the group. Martin managed to slip the rope from his wrist and escape into the bush, undercover of the night, minutes before the executions began of the group he was with. He spent 4 days walking in the Gambian bush avoiding coming into contact with anyone until he was able to cross the border to safety in southern Senegal. _ “I jumped From the pickup and into the forest. I heard the soldiers shouting at me, but I did not look back. I ran harder…I tripped on something in the forest that brought me down and gunshots passed over me and around me. But, it was dark so I lay still and waited until it was safe to move again. I could hear behind me ‘Oh God save us, Oh God save us’, and gunshots”. Martin told us that he knew then that his friends were being killed. Martin is now part of a campaign to bring #Jammeh2Justice, for himself and the families of all of those whose loved ones were executed in The Gambia and Senegal in July 2005. _ Portrait from 3+ years (and still going) of working on our multi-media series: ‘Gambia-victims, and resisters’ © @jasonflorio in collaboration with Helen Jones-Florio (also @doors_helenjonesflorio #StoriesBehindDoors / @jasonflorio_photoprints) #Portraits4PositiveChange. Read more:https://blog.jasonflorio.com/2020/07/22/gambia-justice-for-massacre/ All ( ) #Portraits4PositiveChange . . . . . #VictimsofJammeh #jasonfloriophotography #helenjonesflorio #NeverAgainGambia #YahyaJammeh #survivors #humanrightsviolations #extrajudicialkillings #aneked #EverydayGambia #gambiacentrefor (at Ghana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC7_r6_Hh4B/?igshid=1y13c4jp16e44