Mr. Katim S. Touray,
I have just read your comments.
Thank you for helping me here. You are right about my intention. I have said
it more than once, that I fight with my poor english, and sometimes I
restrain from comments, just because I know it takes me too long time, and I
can not express myself the way I want to, due to my lack of english.
I have not commented anything from the MRDGNY nor the Ebou Collys very
thrilling and affected eyewitness report from the latest gambian history,
because I decided one year back, that I would not comment any person on the
list, IF I did not know who was writing the information.
Now I have 27 comments waiting "as draft" because I try to stick to my
principle. To me it has always been a privilege to become a member of this
Bantaba, and over the years I have learnt so much from it. And I have also
met people in real life, who I first come to know through this list, and
it´s been great experience.
Ms. Jabou Joh,
thanks for your comment on the "door of reconciliation". I think I have
posted my comment some months back, what I felt about the present
governments "attempt" to present the indemnity act as a step towards
reconciliation. I will not repeat all of it, but just say, that I don´t
believe in reconciliation if the oppressor, the violating part don´t start
the process by confession, saying that they know they did wrong, did a crime
and ask for forgiveness. That part should "risk his arm" so to say. By
enforcing a indemnity bill in the parliament is in my opinion the contrary
of "risking the arm", that is to secure your arm and then ask the offended
part to reconcile - that is an insult.
Comments and regards from
Asbjørn Nordam
on 30/07/01 10:46, Katim S. Touray at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I think we have a BIG mis-understanding here. I don't think Asbjørn in any
> way meant
> to question your bravery in standing up against President Jammeh, and doing so
> in
> public for that matter. I think he (or she) just meant to point out that it
> would
> help a lot if postings from the [log in to unmask] address are signed. Matter of
> fact, I
> was thinking about the same thing the other day, when I replied to your
> posting about
> President Jammeh's hiring and firing. To lend support to Asbjørn's original
> posting,
> I suggest that your reserve the [log in to unmask] address for official
> correspondence
> (e.g. press releases) from your Movement, and get a personal e-mail address
> from
> Yahoo, Hotmail, or other sources so you can sign them with your name. I think
> this
> will help a lot.
>
> In the same vein, Ebou Colly, who as been sending some very interesting and
> informative postings about his take on the '94 coup, other alleged coup
> attempts, and
> the Jammeh government should also tell us who he *really* is. Given that many
> people
> have suggested that he is infact Samsudeen Sarr, I will encourage him to do us
> a
> favor and tell us who he is. He has made some fairly grave, detailed, and
> specific
> allegations that I think would remain flimsy unless they can be attributed to
> a known
> person, rather than a pen name.
>
> It was just about a two or so weeks ago that I heard Mr. Sainey Ceesay, father
> of the
> late Finance Minister Koro Ceesay being interviewed on the BBC about the
> failure of
> the government to provide them information about Koro's fate. Mr. Colly's
> allegations, if true, would be tremendously valuable to the late Koro's family
> and
> friends in their efforts to find out exactly what happened to him, and seek
> justice.
> For this reason, I would again urge Mr. Colly to please let us know who
> exactly he
> is. Besides, some of his postings are so detailed that I'm sure the people he
> is
> accusing know him, so he certainly would be foolish to think that a pen name
> would
> conceal his identity from the Jammeh government.
>
> I guess that's about it. I gotta go get some sleep!
>
> Katim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Movement for restoration of democracy in Gambia [NY] <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 10:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Movement for restoration of democracy in Gambia
>
>
>> You're right concerned friend/citizen of Gambia. How do we on this forum
>> know, or does it matter that your name is Asbjorn Nordam? Since the inception
>> of this movement, around the April 10-11, 2000 massacre of demonstrating
>
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