Very well said! We can either all do what we can to do away with Jammeh's tyranny or keep quiet and watch our country ruined by 'the soldiers with a difference' who have degenerated in civilians without a difference.
Regards.
Kabir.
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> " FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE "
> JAMMEH PAVES THE ROAD TO HELL
> It's been six repressive years since the Jammeh regime was " lifted on the
> saddle of power". However, we are yet to see any significant difference
> between the Jammeh and Jawara regimes in terms of the social, political, and
> economic development of our country. In fact, all evidence shows that the
> Jammeh regime has surpassed all the "corruption" and "nepotism" that
> prompted the overthrow of the Jawara regime. If accumulating personal wealth
> took the Jawara regime 30 years to do, these "Soldiers with a difference"
> did in 4 years. The magnitude of their pillage and plunder is yet to be
> exposed.
> EVAPORATION OF A MYTH
> Upon their aided ascension to power, the Jammeh regime, like the rest of the
> African military regimes engaged in spouting "pseudo progressive" rhetoric.
> This, to win the support of the Gambian masses who have been known to rise
> to action whenever the call is made to transform our wretched conditions of
> living - only to be betrayed.
> Notwithstanding the blind support the Jammeh regime captured at the
> beginning, we had raised the alarm on the skillful deception and "good
> intentions" typical of the African military.
> The first signs of what they were to become started with the perfectly
> tailored Constitution without term limit and absolute power to amend and
> decree into law the repressive police state that The Gambia is currently
> subjected to. It was during the transitional period that the Armed Forces
> Provisional Ruling Council - AFPRC entrench the state apparatus that assured
> them the sham victory during the elections. The creation of the National
> Intelligence Agency (NIA) and the July 22nd Movement was to fulfill the
> hidden political agenda that the AFPRC had all along.
> The transitional period was rife with human rights abuses such as the
> rampant arrests of innocent Gambians, detention without trials and the
> killing of innocent Gambians-KORO CEESAY, SADIBOU HYDARA, the Ballangharr
> boys and rampant corruption. The millions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts
> and involvement in counterfeiting (operation green medicine) are just few
> examples of Jammeh's criminal character. The Courts became a den of
> "mercenary judges" from Nigeria and Sierra Leone seeking fortunes from the
> spoils of the regime.
> After civilianization of the AFPRC, the language of these "soldiers without
> a difference" took a drastic change, the words "accountability, probity, and
> transparency" virtually disappeared from their vocabulary. When was the
> last time anyone heard these three words from Jammeh and his gang of
> thieves? Now that they have gotten fat from sucking the people's blood, they
> would go to any length to protect the sources of their spoils. The Gambian
> masses are waking up to this deceit.
> WE REFUSE TO BE HELD HOSTAGE
> There is one thread that binds all the military regimes that have befallen
> African Countries; they all became Megalomaniacs to the point of dismay. To
> stay in power, they would apply any trick to divide and control the Country.
> Jammeh has resorted to "tribalism" in a subtle way. All neocolonial stooges
> use tribal and ethnic affiliations to frustrate actions towards UNITY.
> Consider the training and arming of the July 22 Movement who in it's
> manifesto vowed to protect and defend their "noble president". This is a
> flagrant violation of their tailored Constitution, given the fact that the
> July 22 Movement is not an institution or state apparatus that is answerable
> to the Constitution. Rather, the July 22 Movement is only an appendage of
> the monster Jammeh intends to create (a one party state). The NIA and the
> armed forces are supposedly under constitutional scrutiny. Therefore, why is
> Jammeh training members of the July 22 Movement if the army and NIA are
> relegated the responsibility for his "defense". Has Jammeh lost trust in
> the army and the NIA? We await tangible evidence that members of the July
> 22 movement are being trained in military combat in an African country and
> upon their return engage in military exercises in the Gambia.
> The only reason Yahya Jammeh thinks Gambia is his personal property is that
> he controls the guns. Imagine a president saying "if you hate me, don't go
> to my hospitals, don't drive your cars on my roads." Any government that
> attacks the people is an oppressor government and makes no law that the
> oppressed will respect.
> The Jammeh regime has become a nightmare for Gambians. He has gone to the
> lowest levels of intimidation by warning people about what happened in
> Rwanda and that if anyone person or group threatens his rule, "the
> consequences would be worst than Rwanda. Given the already weakened social
> structures in Africa, Gambia in particular, who would trust such a deranged
> mind to have control over an arsenal of weapons?
> Jammeh's tyranny is the biggest challenge to Gambians and there must be
> willingness on the side of the Gambian masses to put a stop to this madness.
> The military training of the July 22 movement in addition to the gang of
> bandits in the NIA and army can never stop our resistance. What happened in
> Rwanda, Burundi, and Sierra Leone as abominable as it was for Africa will
> never replicate in Gambia. Contrary to popular belief, Jammeh and his
> regime of low self-esteem, job-dependent flunkies are very unpopular.
> Besides the so called "middle class" that he claims to have created and
> tamed, the vast majority of the Gambians harbor contempt for the Jammeh
> regime. We must SMASH TRIBALISM: reactionary ethnic or tribal affiliations
> are not the solution to our problems. The solution to our problem is
> NATIONAL LIBERATION upon which we can train our own soldiers, safety and
> security officers for our national interest as opposed to the personal
> property of one megalomaniac.
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