SAIKS.
>May i join you on this devastating report of the security forces
>Yahya Jammeh is comanding.Is a matter of time when the whole world
>will know who this guy really is,His is a murderer who has nothing to offer
> the Gambian people but to distroy everything we have worked for since
>our independence and the only explaination is there's no rule of law in the
>country the only law is Yahya and his criminal gang.Sooner or later these
>guys has to answer to the courts for their crimes.May god bless the Gambia.

>Fye Samateh.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Saikou Samateh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: One Year After April 10, Amnesty Country Report Indicts Security Forces


> Beran,
> This report it is as alarming as anything ever before ,a brief and concrete
> report of the political situation on the ground.It is a very disturbing
> picture and no decent human mind will go by it without questioning the
> inhumanity and moral decadency of such a political situation.We have all
> rights,moral rights to stand to the challenges of this fascist regime,more
> so when basic human rights are criminally violated,such as belonging to an
> opposition party or being a journalist.We have a right to national
> development.
> 
> For Freedom
> Saiks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Beran jeng <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:04 PM
> Subject: One Year After April 10, Amnesty Country Report Indicts Security
> Forces
> 
> 
> > One Year After April 10, Amnesty Country Report Indicts Security Forces
> >
> >
> >
> > The Independent (Banjul)
> >
> > June 22, 2001
> > Posted to the web June 22, 2001
> >
> > Banjul, the Gambia
> >
> > Amnesty International's annual country report for 2001 on The Gambia has
> > accused the security forces of torture and ill treatment of students
> during
> > the April 2000 student demonstrations. The report states that at least 14
> > people were killed and dozens injured when the security forces used
> > "excessive and indiscriminate force to break up demonstrations" organized
> by
> > the Gambia Students Union to protest the alleged torture to death of a
> > schoolboy and the rape of a school girl allegedly by members of the
> security
> > forces. It went on to state that several of the dead were less than 18
> years
> > old.
> >
> > "Neither the findings of a commission of inquiry subsequently set up by
> the
> > government nor those of the inquiry carried out by the coroner were made
> > public by the end of 2000," the report states. It adds that the chairman
> of
> > the commission of inquiry was reported to have publicly acknowledged that
> > some members of the security forces were found to be largely responsible
> for
> > the deaths of the students.
> >
> > The report goes on to state that many of the students arrested during and
> > after the demonstrations were tortured and ill treated by the security
> > forces, "including the National Intelligence Agency", while they were in
> > custody. It also refers to the arrest of the Secretary General of the
> > opposition United Democratic Party Ousainou Darboe and several other UDP
> > members in Basse in June and their subsequent charge with the murder of an
> > APRC supporter. It states that the arrest followed an alleged ambush of a
> > UDP convoy by members of "a pro-government militia".
> >
> > "It appears that this prosecution was intended to silence the UDP and
> > prevent Ousainou Darboe from standing in the presidential elections in
> 2001,
> > as no credible evidence was reported to have emerged against the five,"
> the
> > report states. The report also refers to the arrest and continuous
> detention
> > in January and June of some civilians and members of the military on
> > suspicion of plotting a coup, who it states were all later held
> > incommunicado for long periods without being charged. It mentions in
> > particular the arrest and detention of Lieutenant Landing Sanneh on
> > suspicion of plotting to overthrow the government, and how he was held
> > incommunicado for several months before he was charged for treason. "It
> > appeared that at least one of his confessions was obtained after a death
> > threat," the report states.
> >
> > The report also mentions the cases of Momodou Ousman Saho (Dumo),
> Lieutenant
> > Lalo Jaiteh, Lieutenant Omar Darboe, Ebrima Barrow, Momodou Marena and
> > Ebrima Yarbo, who it states were all arrested in June 2000 and held
> > incommunicado for more than four months. For at least three weeks after
> > their arrest, the report states that the authorities denied to their
> > families that they were being detained. "At the end of 2000, the six were
> > being held at Mile II Prisons, where detention conditions were reportedly
> > harsh," it indicates.
> >
> > The report concludes by referring to the continued arbitrary detention and
> > threats of violence against journalists by the security forces. While it
> > states that Decree 70/71, which unduly restricted freedom of expression
> > remained in force. It gave as an example the arrest and brief detention in
> > July last year of Baba Galleh Jallow and Alhagie Mbye of The Independent
> for
> > the publication of a prison hunger strike, which supposedly took place at
> > Mile Two Prisons.
> >
> >
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