Forwarded on behalf of Hamjatta Kanteh.

Hamjatta, welcome back. I will read your piece when it comes out on G_L and
respond approriately. Glad you are back.
KB


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>Subject: The Ebrima Barry Case - Adjoinder to KB's Position
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:07:04 -0700
>
>KB,
>Brother could you please forward this to the List for me. Apparently since
>i was delisted and enlisted again, i have not been able to send a message
>to the List though this is the first.
>Hamjatta
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>KB,
>As ever you have struck the right chords here. I have over the five past
>months droned on here about the opposition's tactical inconsistencies, the
>fraudulent gestures and postures of the gov't and the lack thereof of any
>measure of success in bringing to trial those responsible for the murder of
>the students during the April demonstrations. As you cogently noted, what
>we keep seeing here is that the breath-takingly nauseating and unrepentant
>actions of the Jammeh goes unpunished but ironically rewarded
>internationally with increased assistance and respectability. The
>opposition is largely silent on these huge political deficits. Yet,
>surprise surprise, they are in high gear for the coming elections of which
>we know neither head nor tail. Such are the ironies we live in our daily
>existence as a beseiged people. It won't be long, if the situation is not
>tempered with moderation of mild agitation i advocate for, when armed
>anarchists will strike. And most certainly, they will find a potbelly of
>mass discontent to support them.
>If, as you suggested, the Barry case, which sparked off the April
>demonstrations, is going down the drain and the culprits let off the hook,
>then this is the biggest scandal ever and another major source of mass
>discontent. The fact that the Executive/Jammeh could personally orchestrate
>such mind-boggling attempts at engineering the acquittal of the firemen who
>murdered Barry is tell-tale sign of the chronic break-down of the rule of
>law in the Gambia and what people should expect of these idiotic midgets
>determination to cover each other's back when they commit heinous crimes.
>No-one should be surprised if the recently submitted report of the
>Commission fails to indict anyone one individual for the heinous murder of
>our slain brothers and sisters. Talk less of the top hierarchy responsible
>of these crimes. As it is, the Gambia is on the brink of a make-or-break
>point. If the Commissioners fail to indict any big fish in their submitted
>report, then they might as well have signed and ratified the order for
>social implosion. On the other hand, if they did indict some big fish and
>his/her butt is covered by the Establishment, take it from me it will
>back-fire for the People will see through the smokescreen and skulduggery.
>Unbeknownst to these half witted charlatans and wannabees, the Gambian
>People are not only disguted with Jammeh's scheming, but equally see
>through him like the idiotic bambino he really is. The blips on the radar
>of our national vessel read very grimly. We hope and pray sanity and the
>Providence of our forebears hold sway in whatever ensues.
>When i lace against and indeed, expose the tactical inconsistencies in the
>opposition strategy, cynics and genuine critics alike accuse me of being an
>insincere, naive, neophyte theorist who theorises without evidence. Well,
>time that refuter and repudiator of inconsistencies, fallacies and frauds
>certainly has been throwing everything back in their faces. That the
>British gov't could conceivably perceive of Jammeh as being credible enough
>to be helped militarily to be part of peace keeping efforts in the
>sub-region is a vindication to my earlier thesis that whilst Jammeh wreaks
>havoc on the home front, he is duly rewarded with international
>respectability and assistance. A real life repudiation of the "idealist
>camp's" strategy? You bet!
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
>
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