Shameful arrest and detention of people will continue to permeate our corridors
,as long as we continue to accept the "self imposed" regime of APRC.The better
we understand this , the more we will find a panacea to our common problem
"Sabarry". In my understanding of the definition of Gambian "Sabarry", in its
contextual meaning , means , to be in a slumber land and to be subjected to
all forms of injustice and dirty things against your wills. You continue to
belief that God will come to rescue you from that ordeal. However, in this
slumber land , some are virtually in their subconscious mind fully knew what is
imposed on them is ultimately unjustifiable and wrongful, the ability to make a
prompt defiance against the imposer lies the question. Who will bell the cat?
1) Is it the oppositions or the civil society in the Gambia?
2.) Why Sabarry has so much influence in our society amidst the gruesome
murders, disappearances, arrests, and torture?
3)Is it Sabarry that has prolong Jammeh's rule ?
Regards ,
Badou.
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From: Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 7:37:45 AM
Subject: Re: The shameful arrest and detention of Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr
Isatou Touray. Standing in solidarity in the struggle for Good over Evil.
Mboge
I celebrate your clear-headed understanding of the nature of Gambian public
space, and how we ought to respond to events orchestrated by the unaccountable
government of His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhjaji Doctor Yahya A J J Jammeh.
As you cogently argued, we must continue to reject the "SABARRY" philosophy
subscribed to by the likes of Rtd Colonel Samsudeen Sarr. Fairly applied, the
law should suffice in deciding our public and private disputes. If many are of
your persuasion, we would have seen the back of the tragedy masquerading as
governance in The Gambia.
Undoubtedly, Amie Bojang-Sissoho, and Dr Isatou Touray are exemplary Gambians,
and I am troubled by the Professor's blatant, and clearly unjustified
encroachment on the private sector.
I join you in condemning this unlawful use of public power
Brilliant thought!
LJDarbo
On Wed, 13/10/10, Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: The shameful arrest and detention of Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou
>Touray. Standing in solidarity in the struggle for Good over Evil.
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Wednesday, 13 October, 2010, 1:12
>
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>The shameful arrest and detention of Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou Touray.
>Standing in solidarity in the struggle for Good over Evil.
>
>Few months ago, I was profoundly dismayed by an essay penned by Rtd Colonel
> Samsudeen Sarr published on the online news outlet- The Gambiaecho captioned
>“A Quest for SABARRY”. What I gathered then from Sarr was that Gambians should
>just accept the abuses and excesses of the Mad Buffoon Mr Yahya Jammeh and beg
>for mercy in order that peace will prevail.
>I asked then for utter and complete rejection of such a call. I instead urged
>for the amplification of the fight against the Tyranny and Terrorism of the
>Buffoon Yahya Jammeh. Today I reiterate this call with extra amplified volume
>due to the harassment of the GAMCOTRAP Executive Director and Programme
>Coordinator. I am angered by the arrest and charging of Amie Bojang-Sissoho
>whom I happen to share the same mother and Dr Isatou Touray. I believe this
>action by the criminal regime is to silence these formidable human beings and to
>tarnish their integrity. I am in solidarity with these ladies just as I have
>been with others who were incarcerated for some hidden motives known only to
>their accusers. Of course it hurts when you are told that your sister is being
>persecuted based on fictitious charges.
>
>I put it on that occasion to Sarr that dictators must be confronted with
>resistance not smooching and begging them for their bountiful mercy. For those
>who profess to be Muslims, confronting dictators and wicked rulers is required
>of all believers to uphold the “ Qur’anic vision of individual dignity,
>personal liberty and freedom from arbitrary coercion” (Sachedina 2009).
> Demanding ones human rights to live a dignified and honourable life is a
>legitimate struggle against evil as aptly put by Christof Heyns in his thesis: A
>“Struggle Approach” to Human Rights (2001).
>
>Hyens writes that “Human rights are not about asking favours and they are not
>merely moral or rhetorical concepts; they are guides to action and triggers of
>resistance against what is perceived as the illegitimate use of power, in
>particular state power” (2001, 171). It is no brainer to charge that the abuse
>of state power has been given new meaning and taken to new heights under the
>dastard regime of Yahya Jammeh. What obtains in the Gambia is maddeningly
>disturbing and should worry every citizen and friend.
>
>Thus I call upon my family as I urged the families’ of the six journalists
>never to succumb to the terror of a dictator by asking for mercy. Doing so will
>only enhance and prolong the suffering of you and your community as a whole. It
>is also against what God, the Almighty ask of his followers. In all religions
>it is imperative for followers to resist any authority that oppresses the
>Creator’s children. Dissenting and resisting such authority is a Godly and
>noble endeavor.
>
>I further call on to my family both immediate and extended not to despair. What
>these ladies are being forced to go through is by any measure disgusting and
>despicable. All must condemn it. Notwithstanding, I hope and pray whatever
>condition my sister Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou Touray faces in those
>confined and horrible prison walls of Mile 2, that it will reinvigorate their
>faith in Allah and inspire their convictions to pursue with greater
>determination and zeal, the good job they have been doing for more than two
>decades.
>
>Amie and Dr Touray should be rest assured that their plight in as much as it is
>trying, painful, hard is a test to their resolve and belief in the Almighty. I
>hope they are inspired by the great people who were incarcerated by oppressors
>to break them but never succumbed to such cowardly tyrannies.
>
>Amie Bojang-Sissoho remember you are the child of a great scholar and forthright
>human being, Alagi Hatab Bojang (May his Soul Rest in Peace). Your dad was also
>harassed by the former regime but they miserably failed to break his
>convictions. Your mother Olimata Sarr (R.I.P) was a fighter to the end. She
>never tolerated bullies or accepted any who tried to usurp her human dignity.
>
>I had to write this for my own sanity. I know many in my family are scared to
>death at this very moment evidenced by the several calls trying to preempt me
>not to write anything which may anger the regime or jeopardize Amie’s situation.
> Well, I am sorry, I believe it doesn’t matter what I write against the criminal
>Yahya Jammeh and his cabal, because being a sick and cowardly dictator this
>buffoon is devoid of conscience or feeling for any he feels threatens his
>delusions of grandeur.
>
>The late Dr Lenrie Peters admonished “that Gambians must wake up from their
>slumber and reassess the realities of their situation; that their consciences
>shall demand ‘no crimes with impunity’ until this spreading epidemic of violence
>and savagery is flayed from our midst. […] Gambians must never allow this
>monstrous anarchy of evil to bestride the landscape.”
>
>I apologise to my family but I am convinced that my conscience is clear in
>demanding the flaying of the ‘epidemic of violence and savagery’ which is
>already residing in the Gambian landscape.
>
>Keep strong my beloved sister Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou Touray. All
>peace loving and God-fearing Gambians are proud of you. You are great citizens
>worthy of emulation. You manifest goodness whilst Mr Yahya Jammeh is evil
>reincarnate.
>
>Truth shall prevail. Gambians shall overcome the present evil.
>References:
> 1. Heyns, C. (2001), ‘A “Struggle Approach” to Human Rights’. In Soeteman, A.
>(ed.) Pluralism and Law. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic
>Publishers.
> 2. Sachedina, Abdulaziz (2009) Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights.
>Oxford University Press. [Chapter 5: “Individual and Society: Claims and
>Responsibilities”]
>
>Momodou Olly Mboge
>Oslo, Norway
>
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