Hi Karamba!
                        I agree with your suggestion and your choice of
people if it is o.k. with them. I am getting more outraged by the minute
especially after having just read Ebrima Ceesay's update in which he said
that more students have been killed today.
    Yankuba Njie has suggested that he can host the petition. I think we
should go ahead and draft the text of the petition for approval. Thanks.

Buharry.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 7:07 PM
Subject: Massacre Action Plan


> I thought I would bounce around an action plan for list members to
consider
> in light of the tragedy we are all trying to deal with. Since we all agree
> something meaningful has to be done relatively quickly, I suggest we
> immediately name a G-L crisis coordinator to be our point man in doing the
> following:
>  1- Be a repository for an emergency fund drive aimed at collecting money
.
> We can all send contributions immediately to this coordinator.
>  2-The said coordinator would then be authorized by us list members to
hire
> lawyers in Gambia pronto to first establish the names and identities of
all
> the victims. Our coordinator and the lawyers can then formerly approach
the
> victims families to offer them representation. This would enable our team
of
> lawyers to meticulously investigate the entire events surrounding the
> massacre by interviewing survivors and talking to witnesses. While the
> government is busy rationalizing the killings and crafting a cover-up, we
too
> can have our people reconstructing the crime. Once the investigative phase
is
> over our lawyers can submit their findings to us and the world. If we
don't
> initiate our own enquiry, these brave students who paid the ultimate price
> would not have the honor, dignity and justice we owe them. None of us have
> any faith in Yahya Jammehs judiciary  nor should we even consider awaiting
> their socalled enquiry.
> If list members agree and we proceed today, by the seven day (sarah) I
> anticipate we would have put together some money to even help in the Sarah
.
> Our coordinator would be asked to donate to each of the families by the
> weekend. We can have our lawyers announce by Monday that they have been
> retained by us to handle this matter. They would immediately begin work by
> seeking the release of students still held . I understand the government
is
> trying to arrange a meeting with parents in a cynical attempt to pacify
the
> very obvious anger they know has engulfed the people. With our lawyers
> announcing what amounts to probono representation, the parents can even
> condition any meeting  with the government to the presence of counsel to
> shield them from the kinds of wicked manipulation this desperate gov't
would
> try.
> Please list members let us begin rightaway. I would like to suggest Saffie
> Ceesay of Silver Spring , Maryland for the USA  and Alpha Robinson for
> Europe. If the suggestion is approved I would send  mine this evening.
>
> Thanks
> Karamba
>
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