KB,
If there is anything that you can safely rely on from the pen-pushing
Mandarins of the FCO, it is their shameless and sanctimonious drivel on
policies as ignoble as the resumption of military aid and or assistance to a
regime that cold bloodedly murders children as young as 3 and remain
unrepentant. Notice the uncanny resemblance of the text in both Sister
Sigga's response and that of Brother Kabir's; could it be that the FCO had
it coordinated from London: That all questions on this issue should be in
similar dodgy fashion? I had shrewdly guessed that such a platitudinous
response is all you can squeeze out of the FCO or the British gov't for that
matter hence i directed all my energies in lobbying the opposition
especially the Liberals. I am supremely confident that Charles Kennedy will
expose the shambolic and insensitive decision of the Blair gov't to resume
cooperation with an unrepentant murderer like Jammeh.
As you wisely observed, the sole purpose in resuming such tacky cooperation
with the Gambia gov't is premised on the policy drive of limiting the
participation of British soldiers in international peace keeping duties.
Since it doesn't sell well to a cynical and ambivalent electorate back home
to keep bring home body bags from foreign conflicts, it makes sense to train
and arm "third world" citizens where they shrewdly guessed that for the
crack-pot dictators hell-bent on perpetuating themselves in power at all
cost, life of such peace keepers means nothing and even if it does, there is
no one worthy their attention to account to.
Most shameful in my view is the absence of Gambians in the UK from this
protest. There are well over 20 of them online yet they are as silent as
door nails. What shame. When i floated the idea of a petition a month ago to
this day, i have yet to see a word or syllable of support from any
constituent. Some of them might be calculating that the murder of the school
children has nothing to do with them since they have lost no close relatives
there, ergo, they don't give a monkey's. I hasten to caution such
narcissism. For like the swinging  pendulum of a grandfather clock, none in
it's is immune from its blow that ensues from such swings.
Hamjatta Kanteh
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