Ya Soffie, what you and all the other volunteers and donors did can only be
met with a big THANK YOU. As I said, you did NOT have to do what you did.
Secondly, it dishonors the memory of our children to attack the people that
were in their little way helping the families while ignoring the animals
that necessitated these fundraisings in the first place. I would accept any
day for someone to steal money from me than to murder (steal) one of my
children. But you have a despicable character like Gassama criticizing and
lying about people helping the families, but he will NEVER help the
families. Like the saying goes, the vermin is NOT worth a bag, but he wants
to destroy one. Now he is whining that he was merely relaying a message he
saw he a newspaper. I saw the same newspaper. I did NOT read it and
conclude, like the vermin did, that people ‘shouting on roof-tops are not
putting their money where their mouth is’ or that fund managers are stealing
from dead people. Gassama’s sick mind made that up.

Once again, I thank you and everyone that made The Fund possible. I am sure
the families appreciate the ‘measly’ amounts you sent them. We (the decent
folks) wished that we NEVER sent money to those families under the
circumstances. None of those kids should have been murdered on April 10 and
11, 2000 just so that the Dictatorship can hang on to power and render our
people poorer.
KB



>From: Ceesay Soffie <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: One Step Towards Justice!
>Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:06:38 -0400
>
>KB,  were it not for the D2,000.00 mentioned in Mr.. Gassama's email, I
>would not have responded.  Perhaps some heartless no-name decided to taunt
>the Barrow family some more by lying to them about a fund in their son's
>name or maybe, someone did establish a trust fund in his name but that
>someone is not doing it in North America or Europe.
>
>What is true is that each of the 14 family members, whose child was killed
>on April 10th & 11th, was given D2,400.00 from funds collected in North
>America; that Hassan Suwareh was finally able to get to the United States
>for medical treatment, his air fare paid from the Massacre Action Fund.
>That, though dispersed across continents, outraged Gambians were working to
>get Yusupha Mbye a sponsor so that he could stay in England and receive the
>treatment he needs whilst Gambia government representatives in England
>confiscated his passport, threatened him, insisted and finally had Yusupha
>Mbye sent back to Gambia.
>
>Mr. Gassama, Ancha Gaye volunteered her time and made sure all family
>members received financial assistance, D2,400.00 each, and funds were made
>available for the proper burial of the unclaimed body that was at the
>morgue
>for days.  You may check the archives for the progress reports.
>
>To the person who originated the email of one step towards justice! and to
>those who subscribe to it, Kudos!  I, for one, do not see any steps taken,
>to date, by the perpetrators of the massacre of our children, towards
>justice.  There has been no acknowledgement of wrong-doing!  The
>government's actions after the killings speak volumes about the legacy of
>impunity they want to leave us.  When the rights of people to voice dissent
>are abrogated, there is no justice.  When students are killed in broad
>daylight because they dared to stand up to terror, to transform their lives
>and their country, seeking to improve social justice, there is no step
>toward justice.  The murderers were indemnified - they are walking the
>streets scot-free, feeling confident that their barbaric acts have
>succeeded
>in abridging our freedoms.
>
>Soffie
>
>"We will have t repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words
>and actions of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good
>people."
>Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jungle Sunrise [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 4:45 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: One Step Towards Justice!
>
>
>
>Mr. Sanyang,
>
>To those who do not know, it was reported in the local papers here a few
>months back that the widow and father of the late Omar Barrow, the redcross
>volunteer who was also killed on April 10, 2000, bitterly complained to the
>press that unscrupulous people used the late Barrow's name to set up trust
>funds from which the family only benefitted D2,000.00. Isn't it strange
>that
>the family recieved only D2,000.00? Is it a case of those shouting from the
>roof tops not putting their monies were their mouths are or a case of
>unscrupulous peop! le robbing the dead?
>
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