Samba Linguuere

I am afraid you have missed the point. All what
Chongan did was to corroborate Ebou Colly's narration
of events at Mile II prison. As I said earlier, these
loyal soldiers deserve our support and nothing else.
This business of castigating them about their
behaviour prior to the July 22 TAKEOVER only gives the
AFPRC the impression that there actions were
justified.

I know for a fact that Chongan is not particularly
interested in politics and is not affiliated to any
political party. Moreover, I was led to  believe that
after his release from detention, APRC Big wigs tried
to reconcile with him, in the hope that he would be
re-instated into the Police Force, but this principled
man decline the offer. We all saw how Pa Sallah Jagne
was treated after 30 months at Mile II prison, he was
instated in to the Public Service, but did it last?
No. Lets therefore give Chongan the respect he
deserves, a principle soldier/police officer who only
had to surrender after being shunned by his superiors.

Bravo Ebrima Chongan for your courage, honesty and
integrity . Good luck in your studies.

Have a wonderful day

Sanusi



-- Samba Linguere <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
Mr Ngum,
>
> Exposing and criticising the evil deeds of the past
> and the present in order
> for us to avoid paddling in the same boat in the
> future is fair enough. The
> brutality and savagery of the Jammeh/APRC/AFPRC
> regime is still being
> experienced even by the ordinary person in the
> streets. The days of the coup
> witnessed untold suffering meted out to sometimes
> very innocent people, and
> at other times to people who have never been taken
> before a court of law to
> be fairly tried. This was just a reminiscence of the
> days of Hitler.
>
> However, it is also appropriate that we remind those
> who were in positions
> of authority their deeds. And I think you are right
> in reminding Chonga
> about his actions. The lesson that we all need to
> learn is that in the final
> analysis, no single individual has any power on to
> himself. Power belongs to
> the people.
>
> The aftermath of the 1981 coup d'etat was also a
> very dark part of our
> history. Some of us who witnessed it at the then
> Depot remember detainees
> being forced to crawl on wet cement floor, and being
> told to groan "hee hoo!
> man maam laa", meaning in wollof, "I am a donkey". I
> could quite remember
> people like Alieu Sallah tied on the rear of a
> Senegalese military being
> dragged round the football field at Depot. It was
> unbelievable that human
> beings can go to that level. It was at that same
> time that O.J. ordered a
> very young innocent life to be taken.
>
> I also remember just recently when Ebou Colley
> (Samsudeen Sarr) was the army
> commander - his pompous display of authority and
> arrogance, especially after
> the Farafenni and Kartong attackers were captured.
> These young "mercenaries"
> were so brutalised that it would beat the
> imagination of anyone with
> conscience that human beings could inflict such pain
> to other human beings.
> And interestingly enough Sam was right infront of
> the whole nation
> mystifying State House and its security. He
> categorically indicated that
> anybody who was thinking of attacking State House
> was an idle dreamer. It
> really makes me wonder how serious Sam is when he
> calls on people to
> confront the Jammeh government with arms.
>
> All what I am saying is that we can all share our
> experiences, but we must
> be mindful of people who helped the regime to
> consolidate, and after falling
> out with Jammeh want us to rally behind them to
> fight an onslaught. This is
> no sincerity, but real opportunism. Imagine
> Cheyassin Secka, after all the
> bad things he did, writing in the Gambia-L,
> condemning Jammeh, and
> soliciting our support and sympathy. What will it be
> like?
>
> No hard feelings, but a cautious comment.
>
> Batch
>
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