Bravo Ndey. I have been wanting to elaborate on the MRC's purpose, funding,
and operations for the longest but hadn't had the time. I will save your
note until I am able to shed light on this genetic criminal masqueraded as
an innocent heal-all. absolument banal. Le doux criminal.


>From: Ndey Jobarteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: After 7 years UK RESUMES MILITARY COOPERATION
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:09:53 +0200
>
>Kebba and Saul,
>
><<<<If the British Embassy in Gambia wants to keep itself busy and in the
>limelight giving out press conferences, they should be engineering aid that
>is more meaningful to the Gambian poor.>>>>>>
>
>
>I agree with you guys and I am not suprise to see that the British
>government are in such a  mission at this most difficult period in our
>country.  For how long have the British been training the Gambian army,
>what have they brought to us. Just move back to the whole continent and we
>asked ourselves why are the military, army after training becomes so
>inhumane and brutal? Why is it only in the developing countries we are
>faced with these kinds of brutality within the army, a machinery which   is
>suppose to protect and defend its people. Why these things are not
>happening in Europe or  America? We should start looking into how the West
>train our army because so far few came out from that training with a human
>touch. Just look at Kebba's heading after "7 years UK resumes to military
>cooperations" well said "Why Military Aid Now"?
>
>One thing we will have to accept is that these people don't care how many
>Gambians are killed , murdered, butchered etc.  as far as we don't take up
>the responsibility to deal with our own situation.  Britain's attack in
>Sierra Leone to release its capured soldiers clearly stipulated that. Where
>they not  in Sierra Leone before it escalates to what it is today? Was the
>UN not there as well? As Kebba rightly put it in the above quotation, these
>people should stop giving meaning less aid to the Gambia or any other
>African country.  What we have been observing throughout is that the type
>of aid send to Africa is always meaningless and has no relevance or link to
>the elimination of  the poverty and instability that has been haunting us
>for all these decades. Even where as they know the loan or aid money does
>not reach the masses they will continue to give them inorder to empower
>these brutal regimes, why?   Saul mentioned the need of more doctors etc.
>Yes we need more of these skilled manpower but look at the MRC for how many
>years these people are based in the Gambia but they cannot find a single
>solution to the most killer disease in our country, "Malaria". How can we
>have Medical Research Council that cannot  find preventive  measures or
>drugs to diseases that are very common in our country for decades. Infact
>most of the British Medical Students will use that space to do their
>practicals and of course use our people as their medical testing ground.
>
>This again shows us that as far as we are not ready to take up and shoulder
>our responsibilities these people will continue to ruin our continent. We
>have to be our sisters and brothers keepers, especially those of us abroad.
>We have to start devising mechanism of checking and following up some of
>these aids and training our people go through. We have to organised into
>our professional fields and start a discourse as to what to do with the
>situation back home. Doctors, engineers, economists etc.  even among the
>progressive military to look into why are we still where we are. There must
>be a discourse that is cheered by us, directed by us, organised by us in
>order for us to change the situation back home and hopefully that will be a
>lead to the freedom of our continent. We have been suffering unnecessarily
>for so long, we have the brains, energy  why can't we bring them together
>into something positive. The demonstrations and protest in New York has
>shown us that together and organised we can make a difference. Lets put our
>differences and work together as professionals and people with the
>determination to change our society for real. We can do it and we have the
>space.
>
>Ebrima  Ceesay and co, I hope you guys in the UK will asked the defense
>minister why did Britain think that military aid is a priority or solution
>to our present problems.
>
>The Struggle Continues!!!
>Ndey Jobarteh
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- nFrom: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:16 PM
>Subject: After 7 years UK RESUMES MILITARY COOPERATION
>
>
> > I took the liberty of culling the following piece from the Observer
> > Newspaper. The British ought to be ashamed of themselves for resuming
> > military cooperation with the callous government we have back home and
> > helping Yaya sharpen his instrument of oppression. What has changed in
>the
> > past seven years to warrant this insensitivity from the British
>government?
> > Things have gone from bad to worse. Five months ago Yaya's armed forces
> > massacred innocent Gambian children in broad daylight The British are in
> > effect arming Yaya to massacre more children and defenseless Gambians.
>What
> > has Peter Singhateh and Baboucarr Jatta contributed to the Gambian
>society,
> > with their Sandhurst training? I would not be surprised if this Mendy
>chap
> > also come back as an alcoholic murderer. If the British Embassy in
>Gambia
> > wants to keep itself busy and in the limelight giving out press
>conferences,
> > they should be engineering aid that is more meaningful to the Gambian
>poor.
> > Use the money that is going to be used to send this potential murderer
>to
> > Britain and give some poor kid a British Council scholarship to go to
>some
> > university to study engineering or medicine. We urge the Gambian
>community
> > in Britain to lobby the British government and convince them to stop
>arming
> > Yaya. They are helping to perpetuate a despot that is worst than Foday
> > Sankoh. If the British do not want their soldiers to take up another
> > expedition in The Gambia, they should desist from this shameful exercise
>of
> > arming murderers. The instrument Yaya uses to brutalize defenseless
> > Gambians, i.e. his army, should not be beefed up by any decent
>government.
> > Britain should not sit at a table where Yaya sits with the likes of
>Gadaffi
> > and Charles Taylor. What is all this focus on the regional peace-keeping
> > activities? We have ordinary Gambians being brutalized by our own armed
> > forces every single day and all these diplomats talk about is keeping
>the
> > peace in the sub-region. Our army has a more urgent job back home. They
>need
> > to get rid of the tyranny being visited on the defenseless Gambians
>daily. I
> > respectfully urge our compatriots in Britain to mount a more appropriate
> > response to this latest monstrosity.
> > KB
> > ___________________________________________________________________
> >
> > After 7 years UK RESUMES MILITARY COOPERATION
> >
> > The British government has resumed its military cooperation with The
>Gambia,
> > seven years after it was frozen. The British High Commission, Saturday,
> > September 9, held a press briefing on the resumption of the military
> > cooperation, a few hours before cadet officer, Sainey Mendy, of the
>Gambia
> > National Army left for UK to participate in the Sandhurst Commissioning
> > Course, September 2000 to June 2001.
> > Speaking at the press briefing, British high commissioner, John Perrott,
> > recalled that the last Gambian cadets who attended the Sandhurst
>commission
> > course were Chief of Staff Baboucarr Jatta and Major Peter Singhatey in
> > 1993. Mr Perrott said two more cadets could be sent to Sandhurst by next
> > September. "Sandhurst is not the only area in which we are trying to
>help.
> > I have been working closely with Chief of Staff Jatta and Army Commander
> > Badjie to arrange good Gambian participation in a regional peacekeeping
>in a
> > Regional Map Exercise on regional peacekeeping in Nigeria next month
>jointly
> > sponsored by the United Kingdom and France.
> > The prospects look good. I can assure you that we will continue to
>assist
> > you whenever possible in regional and international peacekeeping, both
> > publicly and behind the scenes," High Commissioner Perrott added. Armed
> > Forces Chief of Staff, Colonel Baboucarr Jatta, thanked the British
> > government for the support they have been giving to The Gambia,
>especially
> > the army. He also urged Lt Mendy to maintain a good conduct through his
> > course.
> > In response, Lt Mendy expressed gratitude and assured both the British
>and
> > Gambian governments that he would live up to expectation. The ceremony,
> > which was attended by serving and retired military officials, was
>chaired by
> > the deputy British high commissioner, Bharat Joshi.
> > Observer
> >
> >
> >
> >
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