Mike,yours is a very fine initiative,I am also prepared to work with people
here to effect such a move and as you,I hope others respond to your this fine
idea.
For Freedom
Saiks
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>Saiks, I think we should organise demonstrations in all Gambian Embassies to
>highlight the injustice meted to these lot. I am willing to organise from
>this end in London, I hope brothers and sisters in the diaspora will respond
>so that we can select a date and express our disgust at the way these
>alleged coup plotters are being treated. I think it is about time for
>something drastic to happen instead of just whingeing we should now be
>proactive.
>Malik
>
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>>Subject: FREE DUMO SAHO AND THE REST
>>Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:47:48 +0200
>>
>>This mail should have been posted since yesterday and because of the hectic
>>weekend with many demonstrations against the World Bank in Oslo, the whole
>>of
>>the weekend and yesterday there was very little time to do it.
>>It was two years yesterday, since Dumo Saho was arrested, detained and late
>>charged with planning to overthrow the government among other things.
>>I have never been convince that there is any amount of truth in what is
>>been
>>said and the fact that the State is still unable to make sure that the case
>>is
>>being heard in court and justice be done, is enough evidence for me. The
>>fact
>>that this State is responsible for holding citizens of the country in
>>custody
>>and refused to take heed to both national and international opinion on the
>>case dose not only unveil, the police state character of the APRC
>>government, that can hold both the judiciary and simple common sense in
>>contempt, but also the hypocrisy we see in all of their politics. The ex
>>president, whose government was over thrown, accused of economic
>>mismanagement
>>and the political, cultural and economic marginalization of the Gambian
>>people
>>and nation, is been given amnesty in the name of “reconcialtion”by the APRC
>>government. This is the same government using political power to hold in
>>custody citizens of the country for 24 months and one day without any fair
>>trail. Dumo was arrested for days without his family and legal adviser
>>being
>>informed, without being brought before any court or charged, the State even
>>denied having them under custody and did so only after many pressure work
>>including legal actions.
>>There will be no economic progress in the country without respect for the
>>rule
>>of law; we can never do away with poverty without respect for the rule of
>>law.
>>I am so certain of this that much of the economic declarations from the
>>state,
>>the many dreams and visions of prosperous Gambia with the APRC government,
>>are
>>stories that I don’t even allow to be entertain with, they don’t belong to
>>a
>>state that behaves more or less like a police State.
>>It will be in the interest of progress and humanity for the State to have
>>respect for the rule of law. To release Dumo and the rest from detention
>>will
>>be a sign of this, no law, no court of law could hold them under detention
>>for
>>so long without trail, it is only political power that can do so. Many
>>political powers have been responsible for their own downfall, when they
>>believed that through detention, torture etc they can silence and control
>>the
>>minds of their citizens, they do end up achieving the very opposite. To
>>free
>>Dumo and the rest is also in the interest of the progress, FREE THEM NOW.
>>
>>For Freedom
>>Saiks
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