2020 Human Rights Reporting Award
Story: Faraba Bantang: a cry of justice metwith silence by Mustapha K. Darboe. Published on Kerr Fatou on 20 October 2019.
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Judges’ comments
This is a newspaper report about the Faraba incident
one year later. It is an investigative report on the state of affairs after the
conclusion of the Faraba Commission in terms of the implementation of the
recommendations and life after the incident. The reporter did well to bring out
the real issues as well as the mood of the people. By going to the community,
the story captured the feelings and scenery of the life of a community ravaged
by a painful encounter never experienced by them. The angling, presentation,
originality and public benefit of the story are not only appropriate, but they
indeed take the reader right into the hearts and minds of the victims as to
create such level of empathy that they deserve. It is a excellent story about a
community.