It sad that our people are living in the time of the
butcher bird.Jammeh is prepared to massacre anyone
that challenges his rule.From the 11th November to the
10th and 11th April incident, we all know that they
have blood in their hands.He keep saying that
whosoever challenges his rule will be put 6ft deep.The
man is not interested in anything but loot and rule us
by all means necessary.He has Buyoya's strategy of
building a mono-ethnic army just to consolidate his
grid on power.If Yahya knows they have done nothing
wrong since 1994 why  then do we have the indemnity
clause in the constitution and indemnity bill after
incident of 10th and 11 April.?Apart from the
rubber-stamp parliament, our country is full of
mercenary lawyers and judges who are strengthening
Jammeh's dictatorial rule.
AbdouKarim Sanneh
Manchester UK
--- Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When Yaya gave those diabolical orders, he forfeited
> his right to live in,
> let alone lead Gambia. This man was prepared to
> order the massacre of
> innocent and defenseless children partaking in a
> PEACEFUL demonstration just
> to perpetuate himself in power. And all this hunger
> for power is nothing but
> a hunger for corruption. The man is NOT yearning to
> lead Gambians because he
> is the smartest Gambian that can get things done in
> the country and move our
> country forward. The only reason this man wants to
> stay in power is for him
> to be able to lead a flamboyant lifestyle. He knows
> that he does NOT have
> the wherewithal to maintain the lifestyle of his
> dreams if he does not steal
> from poor Gambians. How can he steal from poor
> Gambians if he is a lowly
> lieutenant in the army? The man and his cohorts need
> power (guns and terror)
> in order to commit ROBBERY against Gambians.
>
> The lives of innocent children is a hefty price to
> pay in order to have
> these callous people leading us. Even if they were
> the best Gambians for the
> job, NOT a single Gambian should be killed in order
> to maintain a
> Dictatorship. But the Dictatorship did not stop at
> killing our children.
> They went further and denied the victims and their
> families the JUSTICE they
> deserved. Next week it would be TWO SINCE OUR
> CHILDREN WERE SLAUGHTERED in
> broad daylight by Yaya’s security forces acting on
> Yaya’s orders. To this
> day, not a single person has been punished for that
> most heinous crime to
> have visited our peaceful country. Instead, the
> Dictatorship is mocking the
> people.
>
> Bogus and toothless commissions of inquiries were
> set up. For the diabolical
> role he played in that bogus inquiry, Joseph Joof
> was rewarded to become our
> Attorney General; the man that is supposed to
> protect the legal rights of
> ordinary citizens. Here is a man who climbed the
> greasy pole to the top APRC
> legal position by stepping on the corpses of our
> children. Together with the
> former Chief Justice, they entertained APRC
> murderers before their
> commission, telling LIES upon lies about the fateful
> events of April 10 and
> 11, 2000. To this day no one on that commission can
> tell you who actually
> shot our children and on whose orders they were
> acting. Joseph Joof used
> this very commission to ambush Pap Cheyassin Secka
> and become the Attorney
> General. Well, one day, he too will be claimed by
> our children whom he
> denied justice.
>
> But the Dictatorship did not stop there. The same
> Joseph Joof engineered an
> Indemnity Decree for the Dictatorship in an attempt
> to insulate the
> murderers of our children. The Dictatorship
> shamelessly went to parliament
> to RATIFY the murderous actions of Yaya’s security
> forces on April 10 and
> 11, 2000. See why I said that these people are
> mocking us? It is now in our
> law books that it is OK to massacre innocent and
> defenseless children. It is
> OK to butcher children as young as three. It is OK
> to beat up people and
> shoot people and inflict devastating wounds on
> people and NOT compensate
> them for their injuries so long as Yaya orders the
> action and it is
> implemented by his sick security forces.
>
> I see we now have a new Chief Justice. I hope he
> realizes that these are the
> sorts of sick and repugnant laws that he has been
> brought in to oversee. He
> is now the Chief Justice in a country where the
> government is the chief
> law-breaker. He is in a country where if the
> Dictatorship does not like the
> law, it gets an inept Attorney General and a
> rubber-stamp parliament to
> change the law. In short, the new Chief Justice is
> entering a lawless
> jungle. As we speak/write innocent citizens are
> languishing in jail because
> the Dictatorship CANNOT tolerate dissent.
>
> I hereby serve notice to the Dictatorship that we
> will NEVER forget the
> massacre of our children. April 10 and 11, 2000 and
> how its aftermath is
> handled by Gambians, says a lot about the kind of
> people we are. Are we a
> people that would devalue the lives of children
> simply because the
> Dictatorship is holding us hostage? Would we
> dishonor the memory of our
> children by dining with the Devil that killed our
> children? We should always
> remember that those children were fighting to make
> Gambia a better place for
> all of us. Those children NEVER got up to go and
> topple any government and
> threaten the flamboyant lifestyles of the APRC
> Dictatorship. Those children
> got up because they saw LAWLESSNESS in the country
> and they wanted the
> authorities to realize that the children would NOT
> be silent when their
> colleagues were being raped and murdered without
> redress from the courts.
> The children got up because one of their own (Ebrima
> Barry) was murdered and
> then denied justice. At the end of the day, the
> children have been
> vindicated. Joseph Joof’s inept prosecutors NEVER
> convicted the murderers of
> Ebrima Barry. But when the Dictatorship finally
> denied Ebrima Barry’s family
> the justice they deserved, not a single protest was
> heard. Why? Because the
> Gambians are held hostage by the Dictatorship. More
> than a dozen innocent
> lives were lost when all the children were doing was
> demonstrating against
> the feet-dragging in the Ebrima Barry case. Now,
> imagine how many will be
> lost if children came out to demonstrate against the
> blatant denial of
> justice meted on the families of all the children
> involved in this saga.
> Should Gambians we reduced to this? Should we
> tolerate a Dictatorship that
> slaughters our children and then deny us justice?
> Should we tolerate a
> Dictatorship that incarcerates and slaughters
> innocent Gambians in order to
> perpetuate itself in power; continue to steal from
> us and render our people
> destitute?
> KB
>
>
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