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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:26:05 -0500
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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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