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Another mail from a source. It is addressed to Robin Cook.

Ebrima

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>Subject: My protest note to Robin Cook
>
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>Ebrima,
>Below Is my letter to the British Foreign Minister. I did not address a
>letter to the British High Commissioner in Banjul for obvious reasons.
>According to the auto reply from the FCOs web site, the comments will be
>passed to te relevant department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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>Dear Mr. Cook,
>             Re: THE GAMBIA: UK's RESUMPTION OF MILITARY COOPERATION
>I am writing to express deep concern about the recent decision of the
>British Government to resume military cooperation with the Government of
>The Gambia after a seven-year suspension.
>
>This decision is coming at a time when the Jammeh regime is demonstrating
>increasing intolerance towards legitimate and peaceful oppositon to his
>regime.  His most recent show of intolerance is the April massacre of at
>least a dozen defenceless students who were demonstrating peacefully
>against the murder of one student at the hands of personnel of the Fire
>department and the raping of a school girl by a member of Jammeh's security
>forces. Your Government's decision to resume military assistance, in the
>view of many Gambians, will onlycontribute further to the repression of
>defenceless Gambians at the hands of the military.
>
>Your Ethical Foreign Policy raised hopes of the oppressed in the Gambia and
>in other parts of the world where human rights abuses are common.  With the
>resumption of military cooperation with regimes like the one in The Gambia,
>these hopes seem to have been dashed unless a review of the decision is
>undertaken with a view to reversing it.
>
>What the Gambia needs now more than ever is development assistance that
>will address the acute level of poverty prevailing in the country rather
>than arming the repressive regime of yahya Jammeh.
>
>For your information, I have addressed a similar letter to the British
>Prime Minister.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>A CONCERNED GAMBIAN
>

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