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Lamin Sanyang <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 May 2002 01:14:22 +0000
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Maodo Malik,
Ajaarama Bandam!
Sanyang

Quoting malik kah <[log in to unmask]>
>
>I wish to interject in this discour about rights and make some observations
>that I hope would help further this debate.
...it is false to castigate Jammeh only to excuse
>Jawara,
>a just person would try to figure out Jawara's wrongs and and abhore in as
>much as Jammeh would be. Hence the whole equation with regard to Gambia we
>are yet to finde a regime that is dispensing justice. Not wishing to make a
>political point but stating a fact, I can recall an in-law of mine called
>Baboucarr Langley whose only crime was to make a one man demonstration
>hoisting a flag at an Independence parade shouting "the people are tired,
>we
>want change". He wwas forced to confess that he was mad so that they can
>release him he refused and was imprisioned, at the time he had two lovely
>twin children only one month old, due to the stress and pain my sister was
>going through one of the twin passed out barely another month the other one
>followed, so how can anyone in their right frame of mind say this was
>justice. The difference between then and now is there is more media
>reporting hence nothing goes under the carpet and rightly so. Under Jammeh
>all in London can testify to this I was at the centre demonstrating when
>the
>APRC regime murdered our brothers and sisdters my aqssertion is that we
>must
>cease comparing and attack both of them for they are all guilty to the way
>they handled Gambian rights. To try to exonerate officers that were
>manifestly oppressive or potray them as heroes is an affront to our
>intelligence. "




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