Tombong did a good job of providing names for the grim statistics we already
knew existed. But that was about all I could stand in his analysis of what he
thought transpired. The insidiousness of it all was breathtaking. To hear Mr
Saidy say it, his benevolent President who gave this and that to the students
and was pretty miffed they would in the end provoke him to have to murder
them!!.List members, this kind of evil rationalization is intolerable. He
asked and answered the only relevant question of this entire massacre and
that is the use of live ammunition. Even Tombong Saidy couldn't swallow the
Interior secretary and vice President's bogus contention that the security
forces used blanks or rubber bullets or the much more perverse assertion that
the students were shooting at them. The frontal injuries of the murdered
students and the total absence of any gunshot victim amongst the security
forces only points to one scenario; peaceful demonstrators were mowed down in
a hail of bullets. I don't care what Cheyasin Secka says, any 'investigation'
that has anything to do with this government would fail in two major aspects:
it would not be thorough nor truthful. All they are interested in is to
concoct an elaborate ruse that is designed to reinforce the lies the entire
cabinet is now busy peddling. The good people of our country would never
ever countenance a version of events that does not categorically say the
state through it's agents of repression committed mass murder. The
responsibility for these barbaric crimes lie squarely in the hands of the
President, his cabinet and chain of command. Any redress for the crimes must
begin with this premise. The fact that some branch of the security services
would want to blame the other branch is Yahya Jammeh and his cabinet's issue
to deal with since the hail of bullets came with no service signature on it.
    It is just sickening that someone would consider interpreting the
sequence of events in any other way besides the very obvious way.

Karamba

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