It is encouraging to see the U.S State Department Report actually listing in
detail all of the misdeeds of the APRC regime that Gambians have been
lamenting over all this while.

Jabou Joh

In a message dated 4/14/03 2:42:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> The US Department of State's 2002 report on human rights practices in The
> Gambia released recently points to what it calls largely unresolved
> questions of human rights.
>
> The report lists a number of human rights violations, which its says have
> been unchecked for the past year, which witnessed a hostile political
> environment that denied democratic freedoms, victimised opposition
> politicians and journalists of private media organisations.
>
> An indicting blow to the government's claim of restoring democracy to the
> nation in the wake of the transition, the report states that "members of
> the
> security forces committed serious human rights abuses" which in most cases
> were not prosecuted nor were their perpetrators punished.
>
> It also lists a number of unexplained deaths and what it says is the
> failure
> of the government to pursue investigations into these matters.
>
>

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