Jabou and Katim, thanks a bunch for your efforts at filibustering and
exposing the scoundrel to the CSU folks.  I was unable to follow-up on this
issue this weekend, as I had to travel to visit a friend in the hospital.
Jabou, I'm looking forward to the fact sheet as this would really help our
efforts.  Katim, do you have pictures of the massacre or any others that I
can pass around at the functions?  I would also  appreciate it if you or
anyone out there could put them on the net.  Thanks for forwarding the
pictures of Sainey, Yusupha, and Assan.   Again, thanks to all for their
efforts in this worthy cause.  Dr. Saine, I'll give you a buzz this evening
regarding Jammeh's visit.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou


>From: "Katim S. Touray" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: President Jammeh's trip to Chicago State Univ
>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 19:32:13 -0800
>
>Hi Jabou,
>
>Thanks for your e-mail.  I'm glad to hear that you're building a database
>of
>human rights organizations to enable us streamline our upcoming campaigns.
>To
>save you time and trouble, I suggest you check out Action Without Borders
>Web
>site (http://www.idealist.org).  They have an online database of over
>20,000
>organizations in 152 countries and, as of this evening, there were 1,416 of
>them
>listed as being involved in human rights and civil liberties issues.  Given
>the
>large number of organizations involved, I suggest you breakup the list into
>small groups, and ask people to collect information from their sites.  In
>addition, you can narrow your search to reduce the size of the list, to
>begin
>with.
>
>Also, do not overlook the Advocacy Network of Africa (ADNA) list.  ADNA
>(http://www.africapolicy.org/adna/) is coordinated by the Africa Policy
>Information Center (soon to be merged, if not already merged with The
>Africa
>Fund and the American Committee on Africa), and has over 200 organizations
>in
>it's network.  Saul Khan has been a very good job of attending their
>monthly
>meetings, and we need to continue doing that. In this regard, I encourage
>existing Gambian non-profit organizations (e.g. MRDG) to join ADNA, or we
>should
>plan to join ADNA when we have an organization (Concerned Gambians?)
>incorporated.
>
>Speaking of my call to Prof. Mazrui's office, I forgot to narrate a really
>interesting story that illustrates how small a world we live in.  My first
>call
>today was answered by a lady with an African accent, and because Barbara
>was on
>another line, I gave her my name and number for Barbara to call me back.
>As it
>happens, I asked her where she was from, and she told Uganda.  I told her
>that I
>was from The Gambia, and after sorting out the obligatory confusion with
>Zambia,
>she told me that she had some Gambian friends while she was in Nigeria.  I
>asked
>her where in Nigeria she was and she told me that she was in Jos.  I then
>asked,
>could it be a Dr. Sanyang she was talking about, she said "Yes!"
>
>But that was not all.  I went to school in Nigeria with Dr. Sanyang
>("Olu"), and
>we had a number of friends from Uganda, but originally from Rwanda, having
>fled
>the wave of killings there back in the early '60s.  As it happens, the lady
>know
>all three of my Ugandan/Friends, and told me that one was infact back in
>Rwanda,
>and had already established a thriving business there.  So there you have
>it.
>You never know who you are talking to on the phone until you ask where they
>are
>from.
>
>I gotta go.  Have a great week(end) and best wishes.
>
>Katim
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:38 PM
>Subject: Re: President Jammeh's trip to Chicago State Univ
>
>
> > Katim,
> >
> > This is great, and infact, before we got distracted, I had planned to
>respond
> > to some suggestions you had made regarding writing up a summary page of
>the
> > Jammeh Regime's record, and having this available. This will be useful
>to
> > have on hand to include in faxes and mailings. I have also been working
>on a
> > database of Human Rights organizations around the World, and will
>contact you
> > privately to brainstorm. I will  contact Ablie Saine and many others for
>the
> > same purpose.
>
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