Soffie,
If the message behind One Step Towards Justice is perceived by you as
justice has been done, then i have failed in my communication skills. I have
to admit that my command of the English language is highly limited. Justice
was never served and the whole idea behind the posting is to continue to cry
for justice to be done. Because no steps have been taken to date to bring
the murderers to justice it is our duty to take a step towards justice. That
step could be done by sending messages to the State House website tomorrow
and(or)subscribing to Karamba's suggestion of a collective manifestation
through the newspapers back home, among other efforts that may come to mind.
One Step towards Justice is a call for Justice to be served!
Sanyang.
>From: Ceesay Soffie <[log in to unmask]>
>To the person who originated the email of one step towards justice! and to
>those who subscribe to it, Kudos! I, for one, do not see any steps taken,
>to date, by the perpetrators of the massacre of our children, towards
>justice. There has been no acknowledgement of wrong-doing! The
>government's actions after the killings speak volumes about the legacy of
>impunity they want to leave us. When the rights of people to voice dissent
>are abrogated, there is no justice. When students are killed in broad
>daylight because they dared to stand up to terror, to transform their lives
>and their country, seeking to improve social justice, there is no step
>toward justice. The murderers were indemnified - they are walking the
>streets scot-free, feeling confident that their barbaric acts have
>succeeded
>in abridging our freedoms.
>
>Soffie
>
>"We will have t repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words
>and actions of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good
>people."
>Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jungle Sunrise [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 4:45 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: One Step Towards Justice!
>
>
>
>Mr. Sanyang,
>
>To those who do not know, it was reported in the local papers here a few
>months back that the widow and father of the late Omar Barrow, the redcross
>volunteer who was also killed on April 10, 2000, bitterly complained to the
>press that unscrupulous people used the late Barrow's name to set up trust
>funds from which the family only benefitted D2,000.00. Isn't it strange
>that
>the family recieved only D2,000.00? Is it a case of those shouting from the
>roof tops not putting their monies were their mouths are or a case of
>unscrupulous peop! le robbing the dead?
>
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