Ms.Sigga Jagne:

Keep up the good work!  This is truly inspiring and impressive. All the
efforts by those on the G-L, including those you have taken will bear
fruit someday.

Abdoulaye

JAYE CEESAY wrote:
>
> Sigga:
>
> This is truly a sad story and I applaud you and your friends for reaching
> out to these innocent victims.
>
> >From: Sigga jagne <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: SUFFERING IN SILENCE :  THE EVERY DAY TRIALS OF THE WOUNDED
> >       VICTIMS OF APRIL 10 AND 11
> >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:39:34 -0700
> >
> >SUFFERING IN SILENCE :  THE EVERY DAY TRIALS OF THE
> >WOUNDED VICTIMS OF APRIL 10 AND 11
> >
> >(See the attachment for the boys'story)
> >
> >My tears are flowing as I write this, but I press on
> >as I have vowed to be the voice of these three brave
> >Gambian boys, three boys who are being constantly
> >dragged through hell everyday, since their woundings
> >during the student demonstrations of April 10.  Tears
> >always roll down by eyes when I express to them time
> >and again, my outrage at what happened to them and at
> >how they have been left to suffer daily.  But to my
> >statements, they merely reply that I should just have
> >faith in God and that everything happens for a reason.
> >  They tell me not to worry and that it will be O.K.  I
> >marvel at their brevity and their strength.  And I ask
> >myself how they can be so strong in the face of so
> >much suffering in their lives and in the face of the
> >fact that their young lives have been basically at a
> >standstill since they were shot on April 10.  But I
> >tell myself not to be misled by their young ages.  For
> >these are the same boys who on April 10, faced live
> >bullets, ready to lay their lives down in the name of
> >justice.  And that itself, is an ultimate proof of the
> >strength of their characters.  But I cannot help, but
> >question the very statements that they use to cheer me
> >up.  For what has believing in God got to do with
> >their shooting and the killing of their colleagues on
> >April 10 and 11?  Or for that matter what has it got
> >to do with the events that led to it - the murder of
> >Ebrima Barry and the rape of Binta Manneh?  Or better
> >put, should my believing in God not be the very reason
> >that I should call out for justice on their behalf and
> >on behalf of all April 10 and 11 victims?  And to
> >their statement that everything happens for a reason,
> >I wonder for what possibly logical reason can the
> >killing, maiming, and prolonged suffering of children
> >occur?  And there is every reason to worry.  For as
> >you will see from this story, the lives of these boys
> >are not only changed forever, but may be at risk due
> >to lack of proper medical care.  So it is for this
> >reason, that I have chosen to tell their story.  And
> >even though I have been warned on numerous times by my
> >family, friends, and well-wishers to be careful and
> >beware that the NIA had actually inquired as to who I
> >am due to my postings on the "L", I have decided to be
> >the voice of the silent sufferers.
> >
> >
> >=====
> >"NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION"
> >
> >                        ALSO
> >
> >"NOTHING IS UNACHIEVABLE, THE ONLY QUESTION IS, WHETHER ONE IS WILLING TO
> >DO WHAT IT TAKES TO ACHIEVE WHAT IS DESIRED"
> >
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