In a message dated 7/11/01 2:15:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> "I hope you people understand that by focusing on
> Chongan's past record as a soldier/police officer only
> makes things difficult for us. If this is the approach
> then surely people like Sir Dawda K Jawara, OJ Jallow
> and many others cannot speak out about Human Rights
> violation in The Gambia, since we all know what
> happened after the events of July 1981."

Mr. Owens,
I cannot any more to your above words. This is what we should try to avoid.
Mr. Ngum raised some very important points against Chongan and to my surprise
they were substantiated by Mr. Joe Sambou. And all the Mr. Ngum is trying to
say is that for Mr. Chongan to be playing victim when he was a recipient of
his own medication does not mean that he is trying to justify what happened
to Mr. Chongan.
And one thing I cannot understand is that Chongan was defending the "legal"
regime but those who are defending this regime despite with all her faults
are called others.
Come on now. Let us all be real here. As brother Ous Ngum said, let us call
"a damn spade what it is."

Ousman Bojang.

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