Fellow GLERS,
Ijust recently got information from fairly reliable
sources in The Gambia that during the student crisis,
the bucther of kanilai did rang the I.G.P. Rex King
from overseas instucting him to open fire on the
students.Rex was so shock that he pretended as if not
hearing or understanding the orders,he then put the
phone on chorus and got a tape working in the present
of some senior officers and the bucther of kanilai
reiterated the orders.
Deductions could be made from Rex`s attitude during
the crisis, he never left his office and left it to
his junior officers to carry out this callous
act.Obviously this does exonerate him because, he
could have been manly enough and disobey this illegal
order flatly and thereby avoid this sheding of blood
of innocent children.Though i must hasten to say that
he was distress and wanted to spill the beans during
the commission of inquiry but was warned.That was the
principal reason for his forced resignation.The good
thing about the whole scenario is that there were
witnesses and hopefully whenever Gambia returns to
normalcy,they could be able to testify to the effect.I
hope the present officers would understand that
executing illegal orders is no excuse and all this
illegal and criminal acts will oneday be revisited,the
perpetrators prosecuted within a climate of rule of
law.Members of the forces need not look far aback,
just remember what happen in Serbia recently,nobody
can stem the tide of the will of the people.The days
of dictatorship is over and certainly the dictators
are on the defensive.
Our beloved Gambia will be liberated oneday and infact
very soon.

           KHALLY AMAT FAAL
--- khallyamat faal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kebba Dampha,
>            I just want to reiterate the points
> you`ve
> mentioned because everything had been covered.For us
> in the U.K. We see the foreign secretary Robin Cook
> always talking about ethical foreign policy and the
> statement just shows that this present government is
> either out of touch or simply they don`t care about
> the lost of Gambian lives.
> It`s a falacy to say that Gambia is involved in
> peace
> keepiung operations when there is no peace in the
> Gambia,
> . The Gambia government neither respects nor upholds
> the rule of law.Basic human righs are not respected
> and is very fine for the british government to
> condemn
> the burmese military government while training a
> similar one.So much for Robin Cook`s ethical foreign
> poliocy.
> We as GAMBIANS WILL CONTIUINE TO FIGHT THIS ILLEGAL
> REGIME UNTIL IT`S DEMISE, ADIEU
> --- Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > First of all, I wish to take this opportunity to
> > thank Ms. Jagne again for
> > her efforts. Decent Gambians should emulate what
> Ms.
> > Jagne is doing and has
> > done for our dear country and its citizens.
> > The letter from Mr. Hackett just confirms my
> earlier
> > views about this whole
> > debacle. The letter also reinforces my notion that
> > the British government is
> > insensitive to the plight of the innocent and
> > defenseless Gambian citizens.
> > This double talk highlights the hypocrisy of this
> > government and makes a
> > mockery of their 'ethical foreign policy'. Did we
> > not say weeks ago that
> > this is about Sierra Leone, British troops and the
> > British electorate? At
> > least Hackett had the decency to admit that. Let
> us
> > face it, the British
> > care less about whether Yaya's brute machine will
> go
> > out and murder innocent
> > Gambian children. All the British are concerned
> > about, is ways of avoiding
> > British soldiers being killed in theaters like
> East
> > Timor, Sierra Leone and
> > other so called Third World countries. We know
> where
> > they stand. Our duty is
> > to condemn them strongly and showcase their
> > insensitivity and hypocrisy. It
> > is disingenuous for the British to pretend that
> they
> > are on the side of our
> > children by claiming that they want justice done
> on
> > the issue of the April
> > massacre, yet at the same time, they are helping
> to
> > further arm the brutal
> > forces that perpetrated the massacre. This is
> simple
> > logic. To save the
> > lives of professional British soldiers, the
> British
> > are putting the lives of
> > innocent Gambian children in jeopardy. It is
> telling
> > that Hackett only
> > highlighted our government's achievements in the
> > international peacekeeping
> > arena. He conveniently ignored the blatant human
> > rights violations the
> > regime is engaged in and will continue to engage
> in
> > with the support of the
> > British. I want to let Hackett know that there is
> no
> > substantive movement in
> > the case of the massacred victims. The people
> > responsible for those heinous
> > acts are still roaming the streets of Banjul as
> free
> > men and women. The
> > coroner's inquest and subsequent commission of
> > inquiry came up with bogus
> > findings. These were merely delay tactics employed
> > by the government and
> > their friends in the EU to thwart the wheels of
> > justice. I repeat that up to
> > today (more than six months after the massacre),
> not
> > a single person has
> > been brought to justice. I would also like to
> inform
> > Hackett that the UDP
> > supporters that were ambushed in Basse are still
> > under jeopardy. The
> > attorney general of our illegal government is
> still
> > trying to send Ousainou
> > Darboe and his supporters to jail. The government
> > currently has an
> > application before the Gambian court of appeal
> which
> > is aiming at revoking
> > the bail granted to Ousainou Darboe and his
> > supporters. Thanks to the
> > ineptitude of the attorney general's chambers,
> > Darboe et al still do not
> > know their fate because when the attorney general
> is
> > scheduled to come to
> > court, he absconds. So the net result is that the
> > matter of the ambush is
> > still unresolved. Britain and the EU should not
> take
> > any diplomatic credit
> > for the state of that case. In the first place,
> APRC
> > thugs should not have
> > ambushed the UDP supporters. Secondly, what can be
> > more absurd than 25
> > people being accused for the murder of one person
> > (the aggressor because he
> > went to a lawful gathering, uninvited)? Thirdly,
> how
> > can the Brits reconcile
> > the fact that Gambian law enforcement was super
> > efficient in this ambush
> > case, whereas in the case of the massacre of 15
> > innocent and defenseless
> > Gambian children, no one has been brought to court
> > to answer charges. I
> > think Hackett should look for other things to brag
> > about than trying to
> > defend Yaya's dismal human rights record. Since we
> > are on the subject of the
> > ambush, what did the Brits do about the dismissal
> of
> > the magistrate that
> > ordered the release of Darboe and his supporters.
> Am
> > not trying to say that
> > it is the Brits' responsibility to do something
> > about that. All am trying to
> > say is that, it is gross hypocrisy for the Brits
> to
> > cite incidents like the
> > Basse ambush and the formation of a commission of
> > inquiry to look into the
> > massacre of our children in order to prove that
> the
> > British are doing a
> > great job in trying to promote human rights in The
> > Gambia. The British do
> > not care if the army goes out tomorrow and murder
> > innocent Gambian children.
> > They do not care if the army sits by and watch
> APRC
> > thugs butcher political
> > opponents, burn down properties of innocent
> Gambians
> > and abduct defenseless
> > citizens. Case in point is a recent seminar the
> > British organized in order
> > to bring together law enforcement and human rights
> > activists in The Gambia.
> > At the seminar, NIA officers stood up and denied
> > ever abducting Gambian
> > citizens. This was done at a time when people like
> > Dumo were languishing in
> > jail, incommunicado. The point am trying to make,
> is
> > that token gestures
> > like organizing such seminars is neither here nor
> > there. The NIA goes there
> > and tell blatant lies and go out the following day
> > and abduct innocent
> > Gambians and torture them. That is the human
> rights
> > record of Yaya and his
> > security apparatus. They are not out to protect
> > innocent Gambians. They are
> > out to protect Yaya at any cost. If it means
> > murdering 15 innocent Gambian
> > children, so be it.
> > We also resent the way Hackett was trying to
> > downplay this resumption of aid
> > by implying that the aid is restricted to taking
> few
> > officers to Sandhurst.
> > The British ambassador in The Gambia told his
> > friends in the army that this
>
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