Thank you for your support Elhadj. May God Bless You and Your Family.
                                             Binneh

----- Original Message -----
From: Elhajj Mustapha Fye <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 1, 2004 5:47 pm
Subject: Re: RECONSTRUCTION OF GRUESOME SCENARIOS-MAD YAHYA'S DEMOCRACY HATES              DEMONSTRATORS

> Binneh,
> You are right! I met some of these people and they explained the
> heinousactions against them. Some of them has explained to me, that
> they were
> raped, tortured, harassed etc.at the Fajara Barracks. Most of them are
> afraid to talk about their ordeal in the Gambia. Thanks for
> reminding us!
> Keep them coming!
>
> Elhadj Tapha.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Binneh Minteh" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 4:26 PM
> Subject: RECONSTRUCTION OF GRUESOME SCENARIOS-MAD YAHYA'S DEMOCRACY
> HATESDEMONSTRATORS
>
>
> > RECONSTRUCTION OF
GRUESOME SCENARIOS-MAD YAHYA'S DEMOCRACY HATES
> > DEMONSTRATORS!
> >
> > Was it not in 1995 that mad Yahya started the policy he calls
> TECK-
> > (Torture Eliminate Castrate or Kill)? According to mad Yahya any
> Gambian> who passes through the TECK method will be silent as far
> as he is in
> > power.These are terminologies that are used as codes,his cronies
> on line
> > cannot know these codes! Let them ask the stinking JUNGLERS and
> GREENBOYS!
> > OPTV will skin all these people very very soon,God is ready and
> the light
> > has started shining!
> > One of mad Yahya's closest so-called special guards who absconded
> is in
> > Georgia and he  knows what we are saying here.
> > These cronies on line are fake and they are trying to know Yahya
> more than
> > he knows himself! These  very people are the ones, who tell us
> that mad
> > Yahya is kind hearted!!!!!!!!! Kind hearted or hard
> hearted?!!!!!!! Give
> us
> > a break! OPTV is praying day and night for m
ad Yahya to step in
> one day on
> > line or attempt being cleared.
> >
> > Mad Yahya's legacy towards demontrators and demontrations is very
> sad and
> > dirty! In 1995 october,Mad Yahya's government went all out to stop
> > demonstrators.Those poor Gambians were accused of trying to make
> noise and
> > then cause a way for Jawara to be restored?!!! Wasn't this a clear
> > manifestation of paranoia?! Those people were supposed to meet
> infront of
> > the American Embassy in Banjul and then register their
> dissatisfaction> towards the Jammeh gangster methods.Here we had an
> illegitimate government
> > killing the basic principles of democracy.Those people were
> invited for a
> > chat by plain clothes officials who posed as demontrators.All
> those who
> > attended the demontration and then eventually cornered were
> abducted and
> > whisked to Fajara Barracks! The first group of people who were
> arrested> traversed very very severe torture!They were forced to

> sign statements
> that
> > implicated them and others who were suspected.The arrests
> continued day in
> > day out.The hanger or store at the motor tra! nsport section  at the
> Fajara
> > Military Barracks was filled with those poor souls.
> > These people were subjected to extreme and severe torture! They were
> > treated like animals nothing more nothing less.Examples of
> torture methods
> > are as follows;
> > 1)-Tie the legs of a detainee,hang his body ie; head facing down
> whilelegs
> > were  tied on   the roof or ceiling.The detainee was left
> dangling in that
> > position for hours.
> > 2)-Bring a detainee outside when it is cold pour some cold water
> on that
> > person and then whip him for some time with what Gambian police
> officers> call 'leaf',it is whip made of hard robber. This whip
> does not cut through
> > the flesh but leaves traces that cause blood to clot for
> sometime.It is
> > very very painful.Mad Yahya's brutal JUNLGERS enjoyed beat
ing those
> > detainees and then putting their cigarettes off, on different
> parts of
> > their bodies.
> > These painful ways of treating those detainees were conducted at
> night so
> > that when they groan,cry or shout no one would hear the noise.
> > Most of those who did the beating had masks covering their faces
> like> Ninjas. No explanation can reveal the terrific things that
> those detainees
> > were going through during those two years! They were charged with
> treason> and treasonable felony but never did they face judges! The
> closer a
> > datainee was to ex president Jawara the worse the treatment was!
> Being> detainee under mad Yahya means being
> castrated,killed,tortured.Medical> reports are within the archives
> of OPTV authenticating these things that
> > took place in Depot between 1995/6.
> > 3)-Some of the detainess  immediately after being arrested,were
> forced to
> > watch soldiers raping their wives before they left their
> residences.T
hose> affected were warned not to talk because if the
> wife happened to speak
> then
> > that meant death! Another issue was that,those wives felt ashamed to
> narate
> > the ordeal.They felt that, a strong stigma was surrounding them as
> women.It
> > may sound strange to some people in the West but traditional beliefs
> > differ.It was during those days that mad Yahya's bloody vampires
> started> using vehicles without number plates! They raided some of
> the detainee's
> > families and then took the chance to rape their wives at gun point!
> > 4)-Some of the detainees were tied behind a military jeep and
> then dragged
> > in the Military football field!
> > 5)-Others had their bank accounts frozen all in the name of
> following> traces and investigating subversive moves?!!!
> > 6)-Some were asked to bend down and then petrol was poured on their
> private
> > parts(this is a method of torture that is very very painful!
> especially if
> > the person is left in the o
pen and the breeze blows on their
> private parts
> > for a while).The pain will be felt when the petrol starts
> eveporating!> Excuse OPTV's plain language but our intension is to
> expose the other side
> > of the coin for those of us who want to know the truth and
> nothing but the
> > truth! Amnesty international has the names of all those
> detainees.OPTV> received its version from people who were treated
> in this bad way by mad
> > Yahya's animals.
> > 7)-Another method these vampires applied was;they asked the
> detainees of
> to
> > give them a list of their immediate needs and then they punnished
> them> based on what they listed!
> > That is;if one requested for moon tiger,the person was asked to
> strip his
> > clothes off therefore, spend the whole night, being bitten by those
> > mosquitoes he wanted to avoid!
> > If one asked for bread and sour mlik or sauce;the person was
> forced to sit
> > and watch the guards eat what he missed without tasting,eve
n a
> bit of it!
> > If the person asked for toilet roll;they would ask him to use
> other means
> > but the toilet roll was not going to be handed over!
> > If the person wrote a letter;they would tear it in that particular
> > individual's presence!(Mandela received the same punnishment under
> Botha!).
> > Here we have a so-called Pan Africanist reducing his own people
> to the
> > level of dogs and squirrels!
> > Those who chose to listen to their radio sets were slapped with
> those very
> > sets and then asked to dig holes.
> > One of the terrifying methods was that detainees were asked to
> dig their
> > own graves late at night and then were forced to bury those
> holes.Usually> the guards pretended that,they received a call or an
> order which obliged
> > them to cancell the execution!
> > Can you imagine the mental and physical torture those people were
> > undergoing during that period?! Many of these people that they
> arrested> were beyond their prime age
! so had no energy to dig
> those holes! No
> wonder
> > most them have either died or are still seriously ill. There are
> some who
> > were castrated!!! These are facts and medical reports have
> it.Some of them
> > were lucky to be treated abroad but others died because of the
> shame and
> > pain!!!
> > OPTV challenges any person who doubts these reports to try and
> contact one
> > or two of those who were detained and then listen to them narate
> their> ordeal.Provided that they feel that the information being
> revealed shall
> be
> > protected (ie avoid divulging the real names of those who were
> maltreated).
> > Mad Yahya continued his trail TECK-
> (Torture,Eliminate,Castrate,Kill).> After 1995 Mad Yahya murdered
> school children on 11th April 2000 in
> > Kanifing Indusrial Estate!
> > Then this year mad Yahya jailed a political party leader for 6
> consecutive> months just because of calling for a demonstration?!!!
> What about if Waa
> > Juwara succeed
ed in getting the people  in the streets?! Paul
> Brammer'sgvt
> > in Iraq allows demontrations and Iraq is at war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Why> should Gambians not express their feelings.How many times do
> we see
> > demonstrations in Dakar? Guinea Conakry etc etc?
> > Well here we have a gvt whose senior service chiefs brag about
> torturing> opponents to death.They reveal these thing to their girl
> friends. Mad
> > Yahya's wickedness is being exposed by God's angels because God is
> > impartial and patient!
> > OPTV will revisit the students demonstrations in part two.
> > Now Gambians OPTV is sending a very clear question and a signal
> ie;ifsome
> > forces start flaming mad Yahya would some of us still call for
> decency and
> > democracy, for an animal like this sad soul?!
> >
> > Binneh S Minteh
> > New York University.
> >
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