Brother Abdu,



Some of the online Gambians papers, supported by brave Gambians on the ground
are doing a tremendous job of  continuing to expose the regime of Yaya Jammeh,  which in turn lends credibility
as well as a wider audience to our voices.







The atrocities we have
lamented on the various Gambian online lists over the years have now been
echoed by the Gambian online papers, other journalists in the sub-region and
around the World and human rights organizations and so the snowball effect of
our list discussions continues to reverberate and that was one of the
results some of us had hoped for when we took to the net to expose the
atrocities of the regime. 



In addition, the regime
themselves, and Jammeh in particular have done quite a bit lately and continue to
confirm what we have been trying to tell the World for a long time. 







Unfortunately, respect  for the rule of
law which can be a valuable tool in bringing certain types of pressure to bear
when  fighting oppression, tyranny and
injustice is non-existent in Jammeh's Gambia because he is judge, jury and executioner and those
who dispense the law dispense it as he dictates.



 



All of these things
happening on the outside can only go towards augmenting change on the ground if
there are people on the ground who will pick up the baton and run with it. Unfortunately,
we lost a golden opportunity during the last general elections in The Gambia. 



 



Silence does not by any
means mean acquiesence in this case. Personally, my position is that we can
continue to talk but it is now time to find ways to turn the talking into
action. What that action will be and what results it will yield depends on our collective
ability to do away with the amazing lack of trust that exists between us and which
seems to be growing, as well as our pre-occupation with self that seems to stand
in the way of progress in everything we undertake.



Jabou Joh




 

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From: ABDOUKARIM SANNEH <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 9:08 am
Subject: What a silence about events folding back home










Folks Reading the online papers and also low traffic of critical debate on the 
internet, it seems it is postive image shaping folding in that country.Is it 
that we are consume of what is folding in that Country is proper and ethical and 
have no bearing of the universal values of rule of law. List Manager if that is 
the show case  reality please delist Abdoukarim Sanneh. I cannot imagine the 
absolute power and the absollute silence within the community in the diaspora. 
Have we not seen what a just and civil society we are enjoying in our various 
domicilating Europe and America? If so why can we not be part of the adovocay 
for dictatorship in our country?

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