Ebou Colly and Ebrima Chongan,
 thank you for telling the world the true colours of
these bandits ruling our nation today.There is no
doubt the country is in the wrong hands,the country is
in hands of cruel and criminals who have no regard for
human dignity.

The arrest and trnsfered of former yugoslav president
slobodan Milosevic to a war crimes court in the hague
is a warning for cruel stateman like Jammeh.
Keep up the good work.
Saihou

--- ebrima chongan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ebou Colly,
>             Words cannot express how well you
> truthfully narated what happen and i pray and hope
> that  oneday justice would happen. I would also
> thank
> Kebba Dampha eventhough i don`t know you, i know you
> are a decent and honourable person who seem to know
> what transpired in our beloved country THE GAMBIA.
> tHERE IS A SAYING THAT NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKE
> TRUTH WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL OVER LIES AND
> FABRICATIONS.
> Now moving on the facts of 06th september 1994, Ebou
> Colly was not taken to RIP i mean security wing
> number
> one, therefore it is our responsibility those of us
> who had gone through a mock execution to explain to
> the world what happen at death row. Luckily I had
> also
> kept a diary while i was in prison, i was influence
> by
> ALPHA ABDOULAYE DIALLO whose book i read THE TRUTH
> OF
> THE MINISTER  TEN YEARS IN THE GOALS OF SEKOU TOURE.
> Now i will start to explain what happen, we woke up
> in
> the morning of the 6th September, tensions were very
> high by this time  we were not aware that the senior
> prison officer incharge of our wing  who was the
> duty
> officer the previous night had been detained for
> failing to turn up when the council members came in
> the middle of the night.
> Strangely enough Rsm Ceesay, a former drum major who
> was detained opposite me, i mean the opposite cell
> no
> 25, told me that yesterday night, he was peeping
> through the window of his cell and saw all the
> council
> members except Yaya Jammeh accompanied by the deputy
> commissioner of prisons Mr Antou Saidy. Aparently we
> understood later on that day the experience
> commissioner of prisons Mr Piere Marongwas informed
> and ordered to report that night but he refused on
> the
> grounds that it was contrary to prisons regulations
> to
> open it in the dead of the night - he was sack the
> following morning by Sana Sabally but re-instated
> again  almost immediately on the orders of Yaya
> Jammeh
> because he taught him at primary school and his
> mothre
> was a Jola.
>
> When the senior prison officer was transfered to our
> wing.  I was very worried and concern because this
> was
> the only officer who had sympathy towards the
> detainees and he would even somtime volunter normal
> informations to us.  I send him mosquito coil and
> cigarettes. I was very nervous and could feel
> tension
> in my body that something sinister was about to
> happen.  Around midnight I started dozing off to
> sleep.  By 1:30am to 2:00am, early hours of 07/09/94
> I
> was awaken by noises and i then peeped on the door
> and
> saw 2LT E. SINGATEH with an AK47 rifle shouting -
> where is Captain M.O. CHAM and the D.C.P Antou Saidy
> in full uniform following behind, with 2nd LT Sana
> Sabally, 2nd LT S Hydara, 2LT Yankouba Touray with
> about (40) other ranks.  I could identify a few of
> them: namely 2LT Reter Sighateh (brother of E.
> Singhateh, W.O II Bah, Private Njie Sana Sabally's
> orderly, Private Susso former T.S.G. Private batch
> Edward Singhateh's driver and other whom I couldn't
> identify at the time.
>
> CAPT. M.O. Cham who was then occupying cell N011 was
> taken aout with both hands handcuffed at the back
> and
> force to lie down on the cement concrete floor and
> they started kicking, blowing him with both hands
> and
> gun butts then dragging him along the corridor out
> of
> security wing N04 we had live firing from the AK
> 47's
> very intensive then the firing abroadly stop.  By
> this
> time Mr kebba Ceesay who was on cell N027 opposite
> me
> was calling the name of Allah and he holy prophet
> Muhamed.  Now by this time all the detainees were
> nervous and we almost certainly felt that the much
> feared execution had started finally.
>
> After a time they came back again and this time they
> took R.S.M baboucarr  Jeng the most senior
> Non-Commissioned Officer of The Gambia National Army
> and the same procedure as that of M.O. Cham (Capt)
> was
> repeated.  Jeng had a serious neck pain as a result
> of
> a serious car accident earlier on during military
> exercise at Kiang Lower River Division, He was even
> flown to the U.K for expert medical treatment.
>
> TheY returned back for the third time and sabally
> immediately started shouting my name.  By this time
> because of the heat I do normally sleep with my
> shorts.  Sabally came up to the front of my cell
> N014
> door showed me blood that was on his hand
> (apparently,
> the blood was that of Capt M.O. Cham) he then asked
> me
> "do you know this" my reply was no and he said this
> is
> blood.  The cell door was opened.  The D.C.P. AntoU
> Saidy came in and hand cuff my hands from bahind.  I
> was forced down on the concrete cement floor and
> they
> started dragging with gun butts and the rangers
> boots
> out from security wing N04 toward security wing N01
> shouting that they were going to execute me.  I
> thought my God the end has finally come but I was
> still a bit hopeful because on the way to security
> wing N01 when the soldiers were malhandly me Sadibou
> Hydara shouted to them and said be careful and I
> made
> the deduction that somebody about to be executed why
> should they be careful anyway I was already brace up
> for it but really scare.  upon arrival at the
> forground of security wing N01 still under hand
> cuff.
> SAbally tolt me to say MY LAST PRAYERS as I was
> going
> to be executed.  Well before I could say anything.
> 2LT. Yankouba Touray had put a loaded 9mm French mab
> pistol into my month with the safety catch down
> infact
> he moving the safety catch on and off and the other
> soldiers were firing life ammunition from their A.K
> 47's rifle indiscrimately until when Sabally ordered
> cease-fireing.  NO AMOUNT OF WORDS CAN EXPLAIN THIS
> TERROR.  I don't think one can describe it this
> situation am honestly lost of words.  Then Sabally`s
> orderly pointed an A.K47 resting it on my chest
> insulting me and ordering me to crawl to cell N05
> security wind N01 where I was finally lock-up.  He
> told me they will come for me 6:00am for the proper
> EXECUTION then they left.  by this time all my body
> was severly bruised particularly my legs, knees and
> wrists because of the hand cuffs plus dragging on
> the
> bare cement concrete floor.  I sat down on ythe
> floor
> of the cell till I heard the call for fajr prayer
> (muslim early morning prayers) I prayed while
> sitting
> down.  By this time also all my clothes had been
> torn
> and I was to remain like that for days.  After they
> left the rest of the whole night I couldn't sleep. I
> was in a complete state of shock and I was thinking
> of
> my family my wife, young daughter just 23 months old
> infact one week before her second birthday, my
> father,
> my mother, my step mother, sisters, brothers,
> friends
> etc. wherever I hear the noises of the irons doors
> the
> adrenaline shoots rapidly making me almost to
> collapse
> because i was thinking that's it they are coming for
> the EXECUTION.  Words cannot express how traumatic
> the
> situation was.  One becomes extremly vulnerable
> after
> been lock-up in a cell no matter how brave or
> caurageous one is.
>
> 7th SEPTEMBER 1994
> In the morning around 7:30am I called Capt M.O. Cham
> and he answered Chongs 'ARE WE SAVED' but I couldn't
> answer him because at that time I knew our lifes
> were
> still hanging on the balance (praise be to Allah for
> saving us).
>
> Around 1:00pm APo Thomas jarju came with Cpl Buba
> Jatta the prisons medic who brought with him a lot
> of
> G.V. paint and we subsequently name him G.V. paint.
> Anyway Cpl Buba Jatta was humane and very
> sympathetic
> he dress our wounds starting with Capt M.O. Cham who
>
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