With Mr. Ebrima Sillah’s kind permission, I would like to nominate the
following two passages from his last correspondence as quotes of the day:

<<...but Ebou you know very well(having served in the AFPRC council) that
the tactics used by any dictatorship to balance political rights with
so-called national security interest is to destroy the very fabric that
gives civil society the power and courage to speak against abuses
by(1)through obnoxious regulatory decrees and (2)if the first one fails like
in the case of the Gambia uses terror to either force the civil society to
caw down to their pressure or prostitute the very people who the civil
society defends with all sort of inducements so that they no longer
differentiate the evil intentions of the dictatorship from their basic human
rights.>>

<<But in a country where child killers are indemnified and can do the same
act and get away with it; in a society where the very fundamental principles
that make the balance work well between individual rights and socio-econimic
progress are set aside for the interest of a only few individuals and their
business interest, the Nussbaum theory Ebou becomes useless.>>

Mr. Ebrima Sillah, Journalist and BBC Stringer in Banjul, Sunday, May 19,
2002.





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