Hamjatta, thanks again for your contributions. You are right to point out
that we have a ticking time bomb in our hands with the way the Ebrima Barry
case and the April 10 and 11 massacre is being handled by the illegal regime
we have back home. Something has to give here. Either the government makes
sure that punishment is meted out appropriately, or the people stand up and
register their disgust to the regime. There is nothing theoretical or naïve
about calls for a mass demonstration against the despicable behavior of this
regime. Just few days ago it was posted here on G_L that the storied
professor Mazrui was calling for mass protests in Kenya. What is ironic is
that the justification this man was giving for calling the mass
demonstration pales in comparison to the problems we have back home. Am not
trying to minimize the plight of the Kenyans. But I know that in my book it
is far more heinous to kill defenseless children than to loot government
coffers. Yaya has done to us everything Mazrui complained about in Kenya and
more. We should fight back now in order to avoid a bigger catastrophe. Under
no circumstances should the opposition leaders allow children to organize a
mass demonstration just for them to be butchered by Yaya's security forces.
The opposition leaders themselves should ensure that justice is done. If
Yaya does not heed their demands, they should be prepared to mobilize their
bases and demonstrate against Yaya. Like I said before, UDP supporters were
prepared to take the authorities on had the courts decided to incarcerate
Darboe unlawfully. They should be prepared to do the same for the sake of
our children. All the parties should come together on this one. Justice will
only be done if they let Yaya know in no uncertain terms that we are not
prepared to compromise the death of our children.
Hamjatta, you are also right that we are sending the international community
the wrong signals by engaging in business as usual with a dictator that
ordered the murder of innocent children. Yaya has to treated like the vermin
he is, and crushed.
KB



>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Fwd: The Ebrima Barry Case - Adjoinder to KB's Position
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:06:01 EDT
>
>Forwarded on behalf of Hamjatta Kanteh.
>
>Hamjatta, welcome back. I will read your piece when it comes out on G_L and
>respond approriately. Glad you are back.
>KB
>
>
>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: The Ebrima Barry Case - Adjoinder to KB's Position
>>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:07:04 -0700
>>
>>KB,
>>Brother could you please forward this to the List for me. Apparently since
>>i was delisted and enlisted again, i have not been able to send a message
>>to the List though this is the first.
>>Hamjatta
>>****************************************************************
>>KB,
>>As ever you have struck the right chords here. I have over the five past
>>months droned on here about the opposition's tactical inconsistencies, the
>>fraudulent gestures and postures of the gov't and the lack thereof of any
>>measure of success in bringing to trial those responsible for the murder
>>of
>>the students during the April demonstrations. As you cogently noted, what
>>we keep seeing here is that the breath-takingly nauseating and unrepentant
>>actions of the Jammeh goes unpunished but ironically rewarded
>>internationally with increased assistance and respectability. The
>>opposition is largely silent on these huge political deficits. Yet,
>>surprise surprise, they are in high gear for the coming elections of which
>>we know neither head nor tail. Such are the ironies we live in our daily
>>existence as a beseiged people. It won't be long, if the situation is not
>>tempered with moderation of mild agitation i advocate for, when armed
>>anarchists will strike. And most certainly, they will find a potbelly of
>>mass discontent to support them.
>>If, as you suggested, the Barry case, which sparked off the April
>>demonstrations, is going down the drain and the culprits let off the hook,
>>then this is the biggest scandal ever and another major source of mass
>>discontent. The fact that the Executive/Jammeh could personally
>>orchestrate
>>such mind-boggling attempts at engineering the acquittal of the firemen
>>who
>>murdered Barry is tell-tale sign of the chronic break-down of the rule of
>>law in the Gambia and what people should expect of these idiotic midgets
>>determination to cover each other's back when they commit heinous crimes.
>>No-one should be surprised if the recently submitted report of the
>>Commission fails to indict anyone one individual for the heinous murder of
>>our slain brothers and sisters. Talk less of the top hierarchy responsible
>>of these crimes. As it is, the Gambia is on the brink of a make-or-break
>>point. If the Commissioners fail to indict any big fish in their submitted
>>report, then they might as well have signed and ratified the order for
>>social implosion. On the other hand, if they did indict some big fish and
>>his/her butt is covered by the Establishment, take it from me it will
>>back-fire for the People will see through the smokescreen and skulduggery.
>>Unbeknownst to these half witted charlatans and wannabees, the Gambian
>>People are not only disguted with Jammeh's scheming, but equally see
>>through him like the idiotic bambino he really is. The blips on the radar
>>of our national vessel read very grimly. We hope and pray sanity and the
>>Providence of our forebears hold sway in whatever ensues.
>>When i lace against and indeed, expose the tactical inconsistencies in the
>>opposition strategy, cynics and genuine critics alike accuse me of being
>>an
>>insincere, naive, neophyte theorist who theorises without evidence. Well,
>>time that refuter and repudiator of inconsistencies, fallacies and frauds
>>certainly has been throwing everything back in their faces. That the
>>British gov't could conceivably perceive of Jammeh as being credible
>>enough
>>to be helped militarily to be part of peace keeping efforts in the
>>sub-region is a vindication to my earlier thesis that whilst Jammeh wreaks
>>havoc on the home front, he is duly rewarded with international
>>respectability and assistance. A real life repudiation of the "idealist
>>camp's" strategy? You bet!
>>Hamjatta Kanteh
>>
>>Hamjatta Kanteh
>>
>>
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