冈比亚当局宣布，将用该国前总统在美国的豪宅出售款，向其统治时期的受害者支付赔偿。
Gambian authorities have announced that funds from the sale of the country’s former president’s mansion in the United States would be used to pay reparations to victims of his rule.
冈比亚赔偿委员会周二确认，已从位于华盛顿特区富裕郊区马里兰州波托马克的一处房产出售中收到略多于250万美元。该房产属于前总统叶海亚·贾梅。该委员会成立旨在补偿贾梅22年统治期间（2017年结束）遭受虐待的受害者。委员会在声明中表示：“资金已直接存入冈比亚中央银行的赔偿基金账户，仅用于支付赔偿金。”
The Gambia Reparations Commission confirmed Tuesday that it received just more than $2.5m from the sale of a property in the wealthy Washington, DC suburb of Potomac, Maryland, belonging to ex-President Yahya Jammeh The commission, which was set up to compensate victims of abuses committed during Jammeh’s 22-year rule ending in 2017, said in a statement that “the funds were deposited directly into the Reparations Fund account at the Central Bank of The Gambia and shall only be utilized for the payment of reparations”.
声明补充道：“委员会致力于确保资金得到负责任、透明和可问责的管理，充分考虑受害者和幸存者的权利与需求。”
“The Commission is committed to ensuring that the funds are managed responsibly, transparently and accountably, with due regard to the rights and needs of victims and survivors,” it added.
贾梅目前居住在赤道几内亚，此前他在2016年大选败给现任总统阿达马·巴罗后，在西非邻国施压下被迫下台。他被指控主导谋杀政治对手、强迫失踪、强奸和酷刑。
Jammeh currently lives in Equatorial Guinea, after he was forced out under pressure from The Gambia’s West African neighbours following his 2016 election loss to current President Adama Barrow. He is accused of presiding over the murder of political opponents, disappearances, rape and torture.
一个调查委员会估计，在前英国殖民地、人口约200万的冈比亚，贾梅的部队杀害了240至250名受害者。
A commission of inquiry estimated that between 240 and 250 victims were killed by Jammeh’s forces in the former British colony of two million people.
腐败所得 巴罗总统在声明中表示，其政府将遵循官方审计师关于如何将资金分配给受害者的任何建议。
Proceeds from corruption President Barrow said in a statement that his government would heed any recommendations by official auditors on how the funds would be allocated to victims.
美国司法部于2020年提起民事没收诉讼，指控该房产是用腐败所得购买的。法院于2022年下令没收该房产。司法部称，该房产是通过贾梅妻子设立的一个信托购买的。美国司法部曾于9月宣布，将把豪宅出售所得资金退还给冈比亚。
The US Justice Department filed a civil forfeiture complaint in 2020 alleging that the property was bought with proceeds of corruption. A court ordered its forfeiture in 2022. The property, it asserted, was purchased through a trust set up by Jammeh’s wife. The US Justice Department had announced in September that it would return the funds from the mansion sale to The Gambia.