Binneh,
You are right! I met some of these people and they explained the heinous
actions against them. Some of them has explained to me, that they were
raped, tortured, harassed etc.at the Fajara Barracks. Most of them are
afraid to talk about their ordeal in the Gambia. Thanks for reminding us!
Keep them coming!

Elhadj Tapha.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Binneh Minteh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 4:26 PM
Subject: RECONSTRUCTION OF GRUESOME SCENARIOS-MAD YAHYA'S DEMOCRACY HATES
DEMONSTRATORS


> RECONSTRUCTION OF GRUESOME SCENARIOS-MAD YAHYA'S DEMOCRACY HATES
> DEMONSTRATORS!
>
> Was it not in 1995 that mad Yahya started the policy he calls TECK-
> (Torture Eliminate Castrate or Kill)? According to mad Yahya any Gambian
> who passes through the TECK method will be silent as far as he is in
> power.These are terminologies that are used as codes,his cronies on line
> cannot know these codes! Let them ask the stinking JUNGLERS and GREEN
BOYS!
> OPTV will skin all these people very very soon,God is ready and the light
> has started shining!
> One of mad Yahya's closest so-called special guards who absconded is in
> Georgia and he  knows what we are saying here.
> These cronies on line are fake and they are trying to know Yahya more than
> he knows himself! These  very people are the ones, who tell us that mad
> Yahya is kind hearted!!!!!!!!! Kind hearted or hard hearted?!!!!!!! Give
us
> a break! OPTV is praying day and night for mad Yahya to step in one day on
> line or attempt being cleared.
>
> Mad Yahya's legacy towards demontrators and demontrations is very sad and
> dirty! In 1995 october,Mad Yahya's government went all out to stop
> demonstrators.Those poor Gambians were accused of trying to make noise and
> then cause a way for Jawara to be restored?!!! Wasn't this a clear
> manifestation of paranoia?! Those people were supposed to meet infront of
> the American Embassy in Banjul and then register their dissatisfaction
> towards the Jammeh gangster methods.Here we had an illegitimate government
> killing the basic principles of democracy.Those people were invited for a
> chat by plain clothes officials who posed as demontrators.All those who
> attended the demontration and then eventually cornered were abducted and
> whisked to Fajara Barracks! The first group of people who were arrested
> traversed very very severe torture!They were forced to sign statements
that
> implicated them and others who were suspected.The arrests continued day in
> day out.The hanger or store at the motor tra! nsport section  at the
Fajara
> Military Barracks was filled with those poor souls.
> These people were subjected to extreme and severe torture! They were
> treated like animals nothing more nothing less.Examples of torture methods
> are as follows;
> 1)-Tie the legs of a detainee,hang his body ie; head facing down while
legs
> were  tied on   the roof or ceiling.The detainee was left dangling in that
> position for hours.
> 2)-Bring a detainee outside when it is cold pour some cold water on that
> person and then whip him for some time with what Gambian police officers
> call 'leaf',it is whip made of hard robber. This whip does not cut through
> the flesh but leaves traces that cause blood to clot for sometime.It is
> very very painful.Mad Yahya's brutal JUNLGERS enjoyed beating those
> detainees and then putting their cigarettes off, on different parts of
> their bodies.
> These painful ways of treating those detainees were conducted at night so
> that when they groan,cry or shout no one would hear the noise.
> Most of those who did the beating had masks covering their faces like
> Ninjas. No explanation can reveal the terrific things that those detainees
> were going through during those two years! They were charged with treason
> and treasonable felony but never did they face judges! The closer a
> datainee was to ex president Jawara the worse the treatment was! Being
> detainee under mad Yahya means being castrated,killed,tortured.Medical
> reports are within the archives of OPTV authenticating these things that
> took place in Depot between 1995/6.
> 3)-Some of the detainess  immediately after being arrested,were forced to
> watch soldiers raping their wives before they left their residences.Those
> affected were warned not to talk because if the wife happened to speak
then
> that meant death! Another issue was that,those wives felt ashamed to
narate
> the ordeal.They felt that, a strong stigma was surrounding them as
women.It
> may sound strange to some people in the West but traditional beliefs
> differ.It was during those days that mad Yahya's bloody vampires started
> using vehicles without number plates! They raided some of the detainee's
> families and then took the chance to rape their wives at gun point!
> 4)-Some of the detainees were tied behind a military jeep and then dragged
> in the Military football field!
> 5)-Others had their bank accounts frozen all in the name of following
> traces and investigating subversive moves?!!!
> 6)-Some were asked to bend down and then petrol was poured on their
private
> parts(this is a method of torture that is very very painful! especially if
> the person is left in the open and the breeze blows on their private parts
> for a while).The pain will be felt when the petrol starts eveporating!
> Excuse OPTV's plain language but our intension is to expose the other side
> of the coin for those of us who want to know the truth and nothing but the
> truth! Amnesty international has the names of all those detainees.OPTV
> received its version from people who were treated in this bad way by mad
> Yahya's animals.
> 7)-Another method these vampires applied was;they asked the detainees of
to
> give them a list of their immediate needs and then they punnished them
> based on what they listed!
> That is;if one requested for moon tiger,the person was asked to strip his
> clothes off therefore, spend the whole night, being bitten by those
> mosquitoes he wanted to avoid!
> If one asked for bread and sour mlik or sauce;the person was forced to sit
> and watch the guards eat what he missed without tasting,even a bit of it!
> If the person asked for toilet roll;they would ask him to use other means
> but the toilet roll was not going to be handed over!
> If the person wrote a letter;they would tear it in that particular
> individual's presence!(Mandela received the same punnishment under
Botha!).
> Here we have a so-called Pan Africanist reducing his own people to the
> level of dogs and squirrels!
> Those who chose to listen to their radio sets were slapped with those very
> sets and then asked to dig holes.
> One of the terrifying methods was that detainees were asked to dig their
> own graves late at night and then were forced to bury those holes.Usually
> the guards pretended that,they received a call or an order which obliged
> them to cancell the execution!
> Can you imagine the mental and physical torture those people were
> undergoing during that period?! Many of these people that they arrested
> were beyond their prime age! so had no energy to dig those holes! No
wonder
> most them have either died or are still seriously ill. There are some who
> were castrated!!! These are facts and medical reports have it.Some of them
> were lucky to be treated abroad but others died because of the shame and
> pain!!!
> OPTV challenges any person who doubts these reports to try and contact one
> or two of those who were detained and then listen to them narate their
> ordeal.Provided that they feel that the information being revealed shall
be
> protected (ie avoid divulging the real names of those who were
maltreated).
> Mad Yahya continued his trail TECK-(Torture,Eliminate,Castrate,Kill).
> After 1995 Mad Yahya murdered school children on 11th April 2000 in
> Kanifing Indusrial Estate!
> Then this year mad Yahya jailed a political party leader for 6 consecutive
> months just because of calling for a demonstration?!!! What about if Waa
> Juwara succeeded in getting the people  in the streets?! Paul Brammer's
gvt
> in Iraq allows demontrations and Iraq is at war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why
> should Gambians not express their feelings.How many times do we see
> demonstrations in Dakar? Guinea Conakry etc etc?
> Well here we have a gvt whose senior service chiefs brag about torturing
> opponents to death.They reveal these thing to their girl friends. Mad
> Yahya's wickedness is being exposed by God's angels because God is
> impartial and patient!
> OPTV will revisit the students demonstrations in part two.
> Now Gambians OPTV is sending a very clear question and a signal ie;if
some
> forces start flaming mad Yahya would some of us still call for decency and
> democracy, for an animal like this sad soul?!
>
> Binneh S Minteh
> New York University.
>
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