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World Service,07 Jan 2019,53 mins

Gambia Human Rights Victims To Testify At Truth Commission

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A Truth and Reconciliation Commission -focussing on the reign of deposed President Yahya Jammeh- begins its work in the Gambia today. A Saudi woman currently being held at an airport in Thailand says she'll be killed if she's forced to go back home. And we try to find more about the practice of beating an old apple tree with sticks by torchlight in southern England.

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