Exploring away from the tourist trail while on holiday inthe Gambia, photographer David Forsyth, came across a community of refugeesliving in wretched conditions – rundown housing, scarce food and inadequatemedication, exploited by local employers – and claiming that for the past tenyears they had been denied help with basic needs by the local UN RefugeeCouncil office.
Although Geneva periodically sends representatives to the GambianUNHRC, when a group of refugees gathered outside the office hoping to meet themand explain their plight, local staff called police to disperse the ‘rabble’before the visitors arrived.
Over thirty refugees agreed to be interviewed on film, andthe community leaders have now presented Forsyth with a signed letter,requesting him to contact the UN in Geneva and make their case known.
The filmed interviews with those brave enough to speak out,taking the risk of local reprisals, can now be seen on YouTube: follow thislink
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