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Samba Goddard <[log in to unmask]>
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Assalaamu alaikum sister Jabou,
Alhamdullilah,(praise due to Allah alone)
There is no power and might except by Allah!
Thank you so much for this fantastic letter.

Let us save the lives of these fleeing students,
it is the least we can do. As Jabou said.

I am 100% with you sister, enough is enough!!!
I never like to join politics, I dont even discuss politics with any body,
because it always brings anger.

I hate to be angry, I dislike anger, but this tradigy makes me feel like, I
dont know how to discribe it.

But this subject is beyond politic,I will never be silent any more.

What huts me more is the fact that this boys are using Islam to cover up
them selves which is a bad habit.
They make many people disrespect Islam, because they dont give good examples
to the public, but Allah! is not sleeping and He will never sleep.

Islam is not a dress neither a tool, it is a complet way of life. If you
only understand the message...

Practice what you preach Mr. president;;;

Only time will tell, you must pay the price one day!!!
You will be judge here in this life, and the life after.

The Day of Judgement is not so far, I wish that it could be now!!!

The Day that Allah! Said: "That Day mankind will issue
forth in scattered groups to be shown their deeds.
And whoso doth good an atom`s weight will see it then,
And whoso doth ill an atom`s weight will see it then.

Allah`s promised NEVER fails!!!

The leaders of AFPRC who claimed to be a pious muslims, take the Qur án and
check Surah:99 verse 6-7-8.

You can do all kinds of evil and try to get so many excusses, but infront of
Allah The Almighty! there will be NO excuss,because you will have all your
deeds infront of you.

Sister Jabou continue the good job there is no time to wait.

Stephen YIP, Canada: said: The students are our most important and precious
crops that the Gambia will ever harvest.
We just have to do our best so that the best crop will not be demaged. What
do you think folk???

George Marc Andrč, Eurpean Union: said:-
We should ask ourselves, what next??? in terms of respect for human rights.
There is a need for dialogue for the incident not to reoccur. Destruction
such as the ones we have witnessed are steps backwards from all the
development that has been registered so far.

We are waiting for the government to see what line of action they are going
to take...

We dont need no peace!!!
We know that, there will be no equal rights.
All what we need is JUSTICE.
And it MUST be done!!!

May Allah The Almighty GUIDE us from Satan and LEAD us to the Straight
Part.....Ameen!!!!!

Allahummasalli alaa saisina Muhammadin wa alaa alli Muhammadin.

Samba Goddard
(Pulo)

----- Original Message -----
From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 1:56 AM
Subject: Letter to President Wade/Please save our students!!!!


> G-L,
>
> Here is a copy of a letter I sent to the Senegalese government on behalf
of
> the students who have fled to Senegal, and whose repatriation is being
sought
> by the regime in Gambia. May I request that Mr Njai put this at the
petition
> website, and may I request one and all to please go there and add your
> signature so we can send this out as soon as possible. Thanks to all.
>
> Jabou Joh
>
>  To: The Government of Senegal.
>  From: All Justice loving Gambians .
>
>  Dear President Wade.
>
>  We have been notified that the Gambia government has requested Senegal to
> repatriate the students who have fled into Senegal to save their lives
from
> the murderous regime in Gambia that has already killed our  children in
cold
> blood, and who are now hunting these students like wild animals.
>
>  We call upon you as a neighbour and as a brother who has the best
interest
> of the Gambian people at heart, not to turn our students over to this
regime
> who will probably turture and murder them. Some of the students who have
been
> detained by the Gambia Security forces have not been charged or allowed
> visits with their families, and the whereabouts of some of these students
in
> the hands of the security forces have not been made known to the public or
> their families, even though the government has said that they will conduct
a
> thorough and fair investigation. Time and experience has shown us that we
> cannot put any trust in the promises given by this regime.
>
>  It is also a general concensus by all sober thinking Gambians, as well as
> all justice loving people the World over,  that the security forces opened
> fire on students when they were exercising their constitutional right to
> demonstrate against what was seen as a gross  miscarriage of justice. Two
of
> their fellow students were killed and raped respectively without the
> government making any attempts to bring the culprits to justice, and this
was
> the reason for the demonstration . Infact,of the two cases the students
were
> protesting , the rape case was not even looked into, and in the murder
case,
> the autopsy report was falsified and the perpetrators left to go scot free
> until this tragedy forced them to say that the perpetrators are now in
> custody. Time will tell if this claim is true.
>
>   We implore you in the name of all that binds our two countries together,
> and these are many, from blood relationships  to a timeless common
history,
> not to repatriate these students to what could undoubtedly be a dismal end
> for such young lives.
>
>  The atrocity of firing live bullets into a crowd of young demonstartors
was
> perpetrated on our country by the government of the day, and yet, the best
> thing they have given the Gambian people is a shameless denial, and a
failure
> to face up to the responsibility of inflicting this tragedy on our once
> peaceful and peace loving country.We wish from the bottom of our hearts
that
> this regime would remove itself from the backs of the Gambian people once
and
> for all.
>
> Ours is a dictatorship where nothing happens without the blessing of our
> President, and yet, he stood before the Gambian public and pretended that
he
> was not responsible for this atrocity. Why then are his enforcers hunting
> down our children in cold blood? This denial and callousness is a
nightmare
> that is hovering over the heads of all Gambians the Whole World over. We
are
> desolate, and in the grips of nightmares since this terrible inhumane act,
> the likes of which we never envisioned occurring in our country. We
implore
> you not to worsen this nightmare for us by repatriating our children to
their
> doom.
>
> From all indications,, it is clear that every attempt is being made to
> inflict even more pain and human rights abuses on these students with this
> endless witch hunt, and the rampant arrest of students all over the
country
> since this tragedy unfolded.
>
>  We implore you in the name of Allah almighty, as a brother and a
neighbour,
> to make every attempt to save the lives of these poor Gambian students by
not
> only refraining from  repatriating them, but also to do everything in your
> power to ensure their safety in Senegal.We put you in charge of their
lives
> with the confidence that this trust will not be betrayed. Thank you.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
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