Gambia The people who stood up to Yahya Jammeh Talk to Al Jazeera

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On January 21 2017, Yahya Jammeh boarded a plane at Banjul's international airport and left the country he had ruled for 22 years. • Jammeh had refused to accept defeat in the Gambian presidential elections the month before. West African heads of state set off on a month-long marathon negotiation, taking turns to get Jammeh to accept the results. Eventually, they gave him an ultimatum: step down or 7,000 soldiers from the region step in to take back control of the country. • On January 19, foreign troops marched in as the country's elected leader, Adama Barrow, was sworn in. • Jammeh took power in a bloodless coup in 1994, when he was a 29-year-old lieutenant. • We have no plans to stay long. What we are here for is to set a just system and to put up structures so that what happened in the past 13 years will never happen again, he said at the time. • But soon, Jammeh had swapped his army uniform for a white traditional robe and adopted a more authoritarian tone. • He ruled the country with an iron fist - imprisoning critics and political opponents. Human rights organisations accused him and his security forces of torture and enforced disappearances. • We talk to the men and women who helped bring Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule to an end. • More from Talk To Al Jazeera on: • YouTube - http://aje.io/ttajYT • Facebook - / talktoaj • Twitter - / talktoaljazeera • Website - http://www.aljazeera.com/talktojazeera/ • Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe • Follow us on Twitter: / ajenglish • Find us on Facebook: / aljazeera • Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/

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