Lets hope and pray that this is the beggining of the end to all forms of
undemocratic actions. The world has come to wittness Jammeh's innauguration
however that does not legitimise the continued harassment and arbritrary
tratement of of those who dissent from tye APRC.  The APRC government must
realise that oppsition is a good thing and and its tolerance is even mopre
noble. Hence we hope that the innauguration demcartes the Jammeh then and
the Jammeh now. All we Gambians want  is to live in a country were we can
express our dissent without fear or or intimidation. We are tired of the
high sounding reconcilliatory speeches that yields no positive treatement
for the people. We hope democracy in the true form of the word exist from
now on, and paranoia and and all those uncertanities exit the corridors of
the politicians psychic. Jammeh should be rest assured that he has been
mandated to rule for the next five years hence he must evoke the law at all
times and make might be a by gone. It is true tha a lot of heads of states
have wittnessed the occassion but that means nothing if the Gambians
continue to be harrassed by the NIA the day after the innauguration. Jammeh
must make the day after as genuine as he potrays to his colleagues otherwise
all this becomes meaningless. After all the money being spent to celebrate
the occassioin belongs to the Gambian people.

Wishing you all the best and hope that God will give you the guidance to
rule wisely and fairly in the intrest of all the Gambian people irrespective
of anything else.

>From: "Movement for restoration of democracy in Gambia [NY]"
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Gambia election boycott
>Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:29:17 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/21/01 1:49:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > For the information of all, the swearing in ceremony has successfully
>taken
> > place, witnessed by tens of thousands of Gambians and non-Gambians
>resident
> > in the country and graced by no less than 15 heads of state and
>governments
> > or their representatives. The presence of these leaders as well as the
> > Director General of the FAO and other dignitaries has given us Gambians
>a
> > lot to be proud of. This is biggest gathering of heads of state and
> > governments to meet in The Gambia since the cills summit of 1977.
> >
> > Another blow to the UDP/coalition propaganda is the fact that one of the
> > last hurdles that has been a cause of concern for some members of the
> > international community, particularly the US and EU, has now been
>removed.
> > President Jammeh has annouced an amnesty for ex-president Jawara and
>some
> > others and has promised to gurantee his security should he decide to
>come
> > home. This announcement was met with jubilation from many in the crowds
>and
> > applauded by the visiting heads of state and the diplomatic community.
>What
> > a blessing for Gambians!
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Gassa: could you tell us who's not included in the amnesty and why?
>Secondly,
>Yahya's pitch and tone of speech, added to the fact that your technicians
>had
>the "echo button" on, more than half of the speech is wabbling. Could you
>transcribe it in a text format and post it to the L?
>
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