Soffie and others, thanks for relating to the plight of the folks that have
been fired, unjustifiably at that. I'm really lost for words to describe
this madness. Is it that folks back home grew numb to such abuses or that
people just do not care what happens to their neighbors? What whould it
take for us, as a people to see the injustices meeted on these people and
their families. At the rate we are regressing, It would take a miracle for
us to speak out on anything that goes on in that country.
Chi Jaama
Joe Sambou
>From: Ceesay Soffie <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: More Firing
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 07:07:04 -0500
>
>Joe et al -
>
>The olive branch was set afire before it was extended to us - witness the
>summary dismissals, the arrests and detentions right after the elections.
>To keep harping on this branch thing is a joke. Just as sending Yusupha
>Mbye to Scotland for treatment was meant to galvanize student voters to
>vote
>for Yaya, so was the branch thing - we all know what's happened to Yusupha
>and opposition members.
>
>That supporters of the regime are mute is no surprise. Those who have a
>modicum of soul, humanity, "Jomm" left in them are fearful of what may
>befall not them, but their families. The rest, according to reports from
>those who have sat down and had discussions with them, can overlook the
>killings, the arrests, the tortures, the rapes, all of the heinous crimes
>committed against the Gambian people because "there is development". They
>can ride their nice cars from one end of town to the next, encountering no
>potholes - this is development. They are comfortable in the knowledge that
>they will have their FOUR square meals any day. That this latter group
>includes folks you never would have expected is telling of the seriousness
>of conditions back home. They are the ones who will try to convince you
>that what befell the students on April 10th and 11th was justified.
>UUUGGGHHHH!!!
>
>Only in the Gambia can your daughter get raped, your son tortured and
>killed, your husband kidnapped, detained, tortured, sacked from his job for
>no reason and we turn the other cheek. Only in the Gambia will find people
>celebrating their new pair of shoes, forgetting that their feet have been
>chopped off by the very person giving them the shoes. May Allah help the
>committed to deliver Gambia from the Satan bent on emasculating our people.
>
>Soffie
>
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Sambou [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
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