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| Staff of the Ministry of Justice watch as Abubacarr Tambadou announces his resignation Friday. |
(Bloomberg) -- Gambia’s Justice Minister Abubacarr Tambadou, who has been leading the
country’s transitional justice program and most recently a lawsuit against
Myanmar over the Rohingya genocide, has resigned to join the United Nations.
Tambadou
will work for the U.N.-established International Residual Mechanism for
Criminal Tribunals, according to a statement from the presidency.
Tambadou
led Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, examining the
crimes committed during ex-President Yahya Jammeh’s decades-long rule and an
inquiry to recover Jammeh’s ill-gotten assets.
In 2019, he filed charges
against Myanmar over the Rohingya genocide at the U.N.’s highest court. He also
defended women who came forward to accuse Jammeh of raping them and helped the
U.S. arrest one of Jammeh’s hitmen.
The
decision to resign was “based on personal reasons,” Tambadou told reporters in
the capital Banjul on Friday. “To the victims of human rights violations and
abuses during 22 years of Jammeh’s rule, you will get justice.”
Tambadou
helped restore Gambia’s “regional and international image and leadership in the
global rights movement,” President Adama Barrow said in the statement. Dawda
Jallow, a former magistrate with a degree in International Human Rights Law
from the University of Essex, will replace Tambadou on July 1.
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