what the hell is going on in banjul?students being shut at,and brutally
beaten for demonstrating for which they have a just cause.i think is time
for jemus jammeh to go,his time is up.we need to find a way to get the
students involve in the voting process.we need to start encouraging them to
vote.what do you all think?
>From: Haruna Farage <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: What happened to Ebrima Barry's teacher ?
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:39:33 -0400
>
> Yus,
>
> I hereby strongly disagree with your position of exonerating the
> school teacher from blame for the tragic death of Ebrima Barry, and
> instead put the blame squarely on the law enforcement officers.This
>is
> not only a misconstruction but also negligence on your part to assess
> the situation that led Poor Ebrima, in the wrong hands, in the first
> place.
>
> The teacher is as culpable as any other individual for the tragic
> death of a poor school boy striving to make ends meet.
>
> You said that there was no way he could forsee the fate of Ebrima.
> This is another negligent reasoning you brought forward to reason out
> but you failed to analysed the reason why the teacher did not report
> him to the headmaster for any disciplinary actions as is usually the
> case? The reason why he failed to report him to the school
>authorities
> and instead choose the fire service and not the police station is for
> a hidden motive, which the school teacher alone is able to respond
>to.
>
> Any investigations to be conducted, the teacher should be the first
>to
> give account why he took Ebrima to the fire service and the
> instructions therein he gave, if any.
>
> With all due respect, with these assertions of yours, are unjust to
> family and the deceased, who has been denied of his rights to
> education by a school teacher and right to life, because of hatred
>and
> other ill motives.
>
> Haruna Farage
>
>
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>Subject: Re: Re: What happened to Ebrima Barry's teacher ?
>Author: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]> at Internet
>Date: 4/7/00 11:19 PM
>
>
>Kibily, I don't think that anyone can blame the teacher for the tragic
>series
>ofevents that happened after Ebrima was handed over to the law. He had no
>way
> of foreseeing what was to happen next, and no disrespect to the deceased,
>but
>thereare circumstances when the law has to be called to control unruly
>students.
> The real culprits here are the law enforcement authorities and the people
>that
>have tried to cover-up this atrocious crime. The law enforcement
>authorities
>and, mo re recently, the army have always had a reputation of being
>extremely
>cruel to s uspects, whether guilty or not. I vividly remember the late
>Sgt.
>Kujabi repeate dly head butting and slapping suspects as his method of
>interrogation. Usually the suspect would confess immediately just out of
>fear
>for his or her own life. I witnessed grown men getting whipped by
>overzealous
> police officers and also heard stories about cases where the suspects
>were
>shocked with live electric wires . To make the issue worse, J!
>!
>awara disbanded the field force and formed the GNA, and they too started to
>viol
>ate the human rights of the average Gambian. Just based on this brief
>history,
>one can clearly see that the problem is a human rights issue and average
>Gambian
>'s apathy towards this alarming trend. No one deserves to be beaten,
>tortured o
>r killed without a fair trial in a court of law.
>
>What irks me the most is the ambiguity of the autopsy report that is
>published i
>n the Independent newspaper. This is an excerpt from the report that
>describes
>the official cause of death:
>
>Quote
>On the Cause of Death, the report cites 'Infaret of the right lung located
>in th
>e middle lobe and base with severe hemorrhagic necrosis. Severe edema of
>both l
>ungs. Acute respiratory insufficiency, Hepatic esteatosis.'
>Unquote
>
>As you can see, one has to be a doctor to figure out what the cause of
>death
>is.I even tried using a dictionary to look for the meanings of infaret and
> estatotis. The language used to describe the cause of death was not put
>in
>layman's ter ms simply because someone wants to cover up what transpired.
>
>The time has come when we to confront these human rights abuses. We can no
>long
>er afford to sit back and watch while the humans rights of innocent
>civilians ar
>e being infringed upon by the very people that are supposed to protect us.
>The
>news media should stop regurgitating these verbatim reports from official
>source
>s, and instead start launching their own investigative reports.
>Independent, ar
>e you listening? In addition, we the Gambian public should abandon this
>"laisse
>z-faire" attitude and start being more vigilant about these abuses.
>Perhaps
>andindependent, non biased investigative team should be started to
>investigate
> reports of abuses by the military, and also to figure out ways of curbing
>this
>distu rbing trend. In the meantime, God bless our beloved country.
>
>Yus
>
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