Elhajj, welcome back. I hope your busy schedule dwindles as we move to
October. We need all hands to fight these vermin. October is do or die. Let
us all work on our family members back home and abroad. Tell them that Yaya
is intolerable. We have to get rid of him in October.

Elhajj, I am glad that you also knew Saye and you corroborated the good
things me and Colly said about the gentleman. I am also sure Ebrima, being a
soccer fan, also knew Saye; albeit casually. A very disciplined and good
man. Elhajj, there is something you said that struck me. You said: "they
pretend as, if they have not even done anything wrong in the Gambia".
Elhajj, this is the disgusting part about these animals. I mentioned the
other day that I saw the video tape of the cabinet meeting that took place
right after Saye et al were slaughtered. I saw this tape in 1994. Remember,
this tape was recorded on the afternoon following the night AFPRC claimed
that there was a counter coup. As we all know, this afternoon was the
afternoon Saye and the other officers were slaughtered and the junior
soldiers that were forced to bury them were also slaughtered. I hope people
notice the ethnic make-up of the victims of this pogrom. I am not saying
that everything was tribally motivated, because Sabally is not a Jola. What
I want people to see here is that the Devil (Yaya), who is most certainly a
tribal bigot, played a very vital role here even though he was not present
at the killing fields of Nyambai Forest (according to accounts that I
heard). One day when it is all said and done, Edward Singhateh will tell the
whole world that Yaya gave them direct orders to slaughter those innocent
citizens.

But Elhajj, going back to the video tape and the pretense in these people.
After they slaughtered Saye et al, Yaya called a cabinet meeting to inform
his cabinet that AFPRC has foiled the 'coup' and 'calm' has returned to the
country. If you see that tape, you will give up on some of our people. When
Sabally and Hydara entered the State House gates with their camouflage
uniforms and grass-decorated helmets, they were welcomed with cheers and
clapping by the same guards that later arrested them at gun-point. These
guards were posing for the camera holding canned drinks and food, laughing
and happy that their heroes have just foiled a 'coup'. It was sickening. But
what was more nauseating was the behavior of the cabinet members. Even
civilian members were congratulating Sabally and Hydara. You could see the
fright in the eyes of these civilians. They were dining with the Devil;
mingling with murderers, with blood dripping down their fingers, fresh
killers. These civilians were too scared to think straight. None of them
even secretly wondered how come Sabally and Hydara did not even have a
scratch on their bodies after having been involved in a gun battle. No one
asked Yaya et al to provide evidence that showed that the alleged plotters
were planning a coup. None of them followed up to ask people whether Saye
for instance was at 'Depot' on that fateful night. They just signed up to
Yaya's lies. They are all accomplices to this heinous crime. They happily
subscribed to the idea that there was a counter coup and all the soldiers
that died were killed in the battle-field. No probing. No critical thinking.
If Yaya and Sabally say so, it must be right.

But the pretense did not stop at the jubilation and the 'high-fives' at the
State House grounds and at the cabinet room. Ebrima might remember this one
as a journalist in The Gambia during this period. When Saye's father
complained about his son being missing, the way these vermin treated the old
man, is just heart-breaking. AFPRC came to the newspapers and told the old
man to shut up. They said it was 'irresponsible' of him to even suggest that
his son was killed. As Kabir would say, they tried to hijack the man's
grief. I still cannot get over that. They would not even allow the man to
talk about his son's death. Elhajj, imagine that happening to you. Someone
slaughters your family member in cold-blood, does not stop at cowardly
denying his crime, but goes further to mock you by telling you not to even
talk about your family member. See how sick these people and their
supporters are? And they wonder why I hate them. Like I said, I have never
once spoken to Saye. But I feel his father's pain. Every half decent human
being should feel the man's pain.

If I were a civilian sitting in that cabinet that day, rest assured that the
vermin were going to kill me, but I will darn well be critical. Before they
sell me any garbage, I will ask them to show me some evidence of how their
lives were threatened on that November night. The vermin were lying. Their
lives were not threatened. Sabally cooked up that hit list he was showing to
people. Maybe Colly or someone else can confirm the following. According to
my information, during the day of the alleged coup attempt, some AFPRC
members (I think Sabally and Hydara) had gone to 'Depot' to meet the rank
and file. From 'Depot', they were supposed to go to Yundum to hold a similar
meeting and touch base with the rank and file for the first time after the
coup on July 22, 1994. When they went to 'Depot' that afternoon, I
understand that they were confronted by certain soldiers that were critical
about the kind of life-style the AFPRC junta was leading. The junta members
asked for honest opinions from the rank and file and some naively (in
hindsight) voiced their grievances. Some complained that the soldiers that
came in and said that they were soldiers with a difference and they abhorred
the 'flamboyant' life-styles of the PPP people, were now leading more
flamboyant life-styles; even giving their wives government vehicles while
soldiers were suffering at the barracks. Basically, they were telling
Sabally et al that AFPRC broke its promise to the nation. They were all a
bunch of low-life liars. Criminals.

After getting an earful, the vermin took an easy way out. Rather than facing
facts and changing their life-styles and living as honest citizens, they
decided to silence their critics. They slaughtered the people that wanted to
keep them honest. I have no reason to doubt this version of events, because
up to this day, this is the modus operandi of the AFPRC/APRC. They engage in
corruption, murder, mayhem, you name it. When you confront them with their
crimes, instead of admitting their crimes and changing their ways, they try
to silence you. In November 1994, they silenced their critics by
slaughtering them in cold-blood. In 2000 they silenced our children by
murdering them in broad daylight in cold-blood. In the same year they tried
silencing other innocent Gambians by abducting them, incarcerating them,
burning down their properties, deporting them, firing them from their jobs,
threatening them, bribing them etc. And in 2001, they silenced their critics
by passing an Indemnity Decree that would not even allow us to investigate
the Massacre of our children.

And they still wonder why I hate them. Elhajj, thanks for your contributions
and I look forward to many more.
KB



>From: Elhajj Mustapha Fye <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>Subject: Re: COUP IN GAMBIA THREE
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 00:08:54 +0200
>
>Ebou Colley,
>Thank you very much, for clearing the dust. Although i am very busy, but i
>cannot ignore your interesting
>revelations about the past events. Late Lt. Gibril Saye was a good friend
>and brother to me, and when i read
>your article yesterday, i dreamt about him. I don`t know how these
>murderers will survive with their families
>in a future Gambia. The funiest thing is that they pretend as, if they have
>not even done anything wrong in
>the Gambia. My advise to them is to pack up their families and leave the
>Gambia, or they might face the
>consequence. Even, if they take all the Gambians to Mecca, people will
>never forgive them these terrible
>crimes. I therefore urge them to raise their heads and look at the sun.
>Thanks
>Elhajj.
>
>Ebrima Ceesay skrev:
>
> > Ebou Colly:
> >
> > Thanks once again for throwing more light on the Gambian coup of 1994.
>You
> > pen, I can tell you, is powerful. No wonder they say "the pen is
>mightier
> > than the sword". My Brother, your narrative is excellent, and I do hope
>that
> > Gambians in the Gambia, are distributing your series of articles on the
> > "Jammeh coup", through out the country, so that people are fully aware
>of
> > what really happened.
> >
> > As Sister Astrid said the other day, I think you should really write a
>book
> > on the Coup, just for the record. I am convinced that it would be a
>master
> > piece if you were to write a book on the coup. And if you do decide to
>write
> > a book, my only suggestion is that you might bring the Gambian Case into
>a
> > more effective dialogue with some of the recent theoretical literature
>and
> > debates on the military, democratisation, civil society and the State in
> > Africa (more widely).
> >
> > It would be very interesting if you were to find time to try and set the
> > Gambian experience under Jammeh in a theoretical context, whenever you
> > decide to do a book. An examination of pertinent research data, as well
>as
> > commenting on associated theoretical literature/debate on the African
> > military and power, would certainly enable you to show how the Gambian
> > scenario reflects and fits some of these hypothetical models.
> >
> > By the way, there is a wealth of very recent theoretical research and
> > literature which will enable you to set what has been happening in The
> > Gambia since 1994, into a theoretical background pertaining to West
>Africa
> > in particular, and to the African Continent more generally.
> >
> > Meanwhile, while looking forward to reading part four of your series, I
>pray
> > for your continued good health and long life so that the enormous task
>that
> > lies ahead can be finished/accomplished.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Brother Ebrima
> >
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