Latjor,

Your idea of a petition is good but sending them to Gambian missions will
not help. These petitions must bwe addressed to the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights, Mary Robinson, UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan and the
Commonwealth Secretary General. These are under international pressure to
deal with wanton abuses of human rights such as witnessed in the Gambia.
Each and very member of L must be encouraged to send an e-mail to all these
people. That is the only way to move our collective protest from the L to
the International scene.

>From: latjor ndow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Massacre of Students in The Gambia
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:44:32 PDT
>
>Greetings:
>I join the rest in expressing my condolences to the families of the
>deceased
>students.
>I also express my indignation to this attrocities perpetrated by the
>officers. All reports being received indicate that only students and
>civilians died, killed by 'law enforcement officers'. While some have
>cautioned to wait for the full details of this attrocity to come out, one
>cannot deny that at the very least, the officers over stepped the
>boundaries
>of human dignity.
>If they were provoked by the students, assuming that was the case here
>(there was reporting of looting by the students), the officers ought to
>have
>simply arrested the students using restrained force. I am sure they have
>other less deadly tools of their trade that would have been more
>appropriate. But using deadly force??? No! No! No!
>What do we do? Certainly move in the direction suggested by Dr. Saine,
>Alpha
>and others.
>My suggestion is to also mobilize our respective communities, draft  a
>protest letter to be signed by as many people as possible and submit it to
>the Gambian Missions abroad, while also following through with the other
>suggestions being developed here.
>Latjor
>
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