Ngorr, permission granted but be rest assured that i
still have to come to you for my lessons on the art of
writing. I hope i can find you.

E Sillah.

--- Ngorr Ciise <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
With Mr. Ebrima Sillah’s kind permission, I would
> like to nominate the
> following two passages from his last correspondence
> as quotes of the day:
>
> <<...but Ebou you know very well(having served in
> the AFPRC council) that
> the tactics used by any dictatorship to balance
> political rights with
> so-called national security interest is to destroy
> the very fabric that
> gives civil society the power and courage to speak
> against abuses
> by(1)through obnoxious regulatory decrees and (2)if
> the first one fails like
> in the case of the Gambia uses terror to either
> force the civil society to
> caw down to their pressure or prostitute the very
> people who the civil
> society defends with all sort of inducements so that
> they no longer
> differentiate the evil intentions of the
> dictatorship from their basic human
> rights.>>
>
> <<But in a country where child killers are
> indemnified and can do the same
> act and get away with it; in a society where the
> very fundamental principles
> that make the balance work well between individual
> rights and socio-econimic
> progress are set aside for the interest of a only
> few individuals and their
> business interest, the Nussbaum theory Ebou becomes
> useless.>>
>
> Mr. Ebrima Sillah, Journalist and BBC Stringer in
> Banjul, Sunday, May 19,
> 2002.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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