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December 25, 2000
By Paschal Eze
Banjul, Gambia
Two students who sustained gunshot wounds during the bloody 10-11 April student
demonstrations which claimed the lives of over 12 students are said to be
languishing at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Banjul, the Gambian capital.
Yusupha Mbye, a student of Pipeline Comprensive, had sustained gunshot wounds in
the neck while Assan Suwareh of Banjul Academy had sustained bullet wounds in
his abdomen and left arm, when he and others were shot by the country's police.
The students were flown to Egypt for treatment by the Gambia government but
returned to Banjul when the amount of money budgeted for their treatment in
Egypt was exhausted.
They are said to be bed-ridden in pain at the Banjul hospital which lacks the
facility to treat them.
Officials of the Gambia Students Union have appealed to the public and
organisations to help the students who, according to Alhagie Camara, the Union's
information secretary, "have been unable to join their colleagues in school."
The shooting was described as the bloodiest ever in the country's history. It
was the paramilitary police which stopped the march when it opened fire on the
unarmed students, killing both students and other people.


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