Après plusieurs semaines de crise institutionnelle, les Sénégalais se rendront finalement aux urnes le 24 mars.
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00:00 After several weeks of institutional crisis, the Senegalese will finally go to the polls on March 24.
00:06 Many voters, standing up against an amnesty law aimed at washing away the crimes and crimes committed in recent years,
00:12 still hope for a fairer justice.
00:15 While a sudden heat surprises the Dakarans used to a more pleasant climate in recent days,
00:20 Endel enjoys the shade on the balcony of his home in the Asseni plot, in the suburbs of Dakar.
00:25 This exaggerated sex tries as much as possible to turn the page, after the tragic death of his son,
00:30 Baïfah Loussen, 17, shot dead on June 1, 2023,
00:35 during the riots triggered by the conviction of the opponent Ousmane Sonko
00:38 two years in prison for corruption of youth.
00:41 Eight months later, Endelo evokes with fatalism the amnesty law voted on March 6 by the National Assembly at the request of Macky Sall.
00:49 The text "Amnesty" lists the crimes and crimes related to the various political troubles committed in the country in recent years.
00:55 President Macky Sall said "We forgive everyone.
00:58 He forgave us, we who have lost loved ones, says Endel whose son died, shot dead on June 1, 2023.
01:07 He should have at least asked us for our opinion.
01:09 He forgave banally, without consulting the main concerned. "
01:14 Political appeasement
01:16 The amnesty law aims to allow countries to know the appeasement of the political and social climate
01:20 and the strengthening of national cohesion but also to allow certain people who have had trouble leaving with justice
01:26 to fully participate in democratic life.
01:29 The law promulgated by President Macky Sall on March 14 allowed the immediate release of the main opponent Ousmane Sonko,
01:35 dismissed from the electoral race and his right-hand man Bassirou Dioméfay, a presidential candidate,
01:40 but also from several other political detainees and even presumed authors of criminal or even terrorist acts.
01:46 The political-judicial arm that lasted three years between Ousmane Sonko and the government
01:51 cost 62 Senegalese lives according to Amnesty International, mainly in Dakar and in the Ziegenchor region in the south of the country.
01:58 "Nothing can replace the dear being that I lost, dear grandfather Endelo."
02:03 The mother of the family believes that criminal sanctions against her son's executioner could only mitigate her bitterness.
02:09 She still hopes that the president who will be elected on March 24 will do his main job justice.
02:15 "I advise the future president to have compassion for the Senegalese.
02:19 A president must be a servant to the benefit of the people.
02:23 There are many things to put in order in this country.
02:26 I pray that he is a great heart, that he works for justice and for peace," she hopes.
02:32 Abroge Amnesty
02:34 Endelo can still hope that justice will be done to his son.
02:39 Amnesty International, which has been documenting the victims of political unrest in Senegal since the start of the escalation in March 2021, does not intend to stop with amnesty.
02:49 The Human Rights Defense Organization accompanies the families of the deceased,
02:53 linking them to lawyers and documenting the circumstances in which their loved ones were killed.
02:59 "We consider that the amnesty law is a bonus to impunity, a guarantee of repetition of these events,
03:04 a gauche given to the defense forces and security of killing impunity," says Sedi Gassama, executive director of Amnesty Senegal.
03:12 "What is serious is that the facts that have been amnestied have not been judged,
03:16 the victims have not been compensated and this is unacceptable," he adds.
03:20 Sedi Gassama is looking forward to the election on March 24.
03:24 "We would like the future president to pass this law.
03:28 We are working with the families to bring this case before the Court of Justice of the CEDEAO and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. "
03:36 According to Mahodo Malik Mbeye, a former collaborator of the party in power, the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS),
03:42 today in the retreat of political life, this amnesty law was nevertheless necessary to appease the political and social climate.
03:49 The international mediation expert and president of the Initiative Group for African Mediation, GIMA,
03:55 salutes a will to pacify the public space.
03:58 "The amnesty law has been widely appreciated. It has aroused divisions in the opinion.
04:04 However, it was voted by the National Assembly, which gives it a real force of law.
04:10 Its effects are already visible with a decryption followed by a series of liberations,
04:14 the most spectacular of which is that of the political leader Ousmane Sonko and his candidate Bassirou Dioméfail," he explains.
04:20 "It is precisely this amnesty that allows us today to live a peaceful and promising electoral process for our democracy.
04:27 We salute the courage and perspicacity of the initiator of this amnesty law, in this case the head of the Makissal state.
04:34 Even if it has caused great turmoil among the population, the amnesty law was little discussed during the electoral campaign.
04:41 Justice is in any case one of the least discussed themes by presidential candidates,
04:46 even if in the various programs of the 18 presidential seat candidates,
04:50 promises of a more independent and more effective magistracy have been highlighted.
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