Hi Prince,
May I first of all expressed my deepest sympathy and sorrow to the
families of the deceased for the untimely dead of their heros and
loved ones, in an unforeseen circumstances, APRIL 10,2000.
Prince, this is another case where the blame is not squarely on the
people who pulled the triger on innocent lives but onto those who gave
the orders for a triger to be pulled.
Prince, you see, in any criminal offence among individuals, there must
be an element of conspiracy first, to commit the said act. To conspire
in simple terms, means an agreement between two or more individuals
who plan in order to execute their ill intentions. If a soldier is
trained only to obey commands and to kill but not to be killed, and
subsequently, the soldier is giving command to kill as part of his
job. Who is to blame in this instance, if he is giving the command to
kill and he killed? The one who gave the commands and the one who
executed the command are both answerable.
I think, the army should only be trained to kill but should also be
trained to undertake other skills like engineers, constructors and
other skills, whereby the soldiers weapon would not only be restricted
to the gun but on other avenues that distract one from this monster
weapon.
The teacher who took Ebrima Barry to the Fire service is responsible
for whatever transpired at the fire station to Ebrima, as well as the
fire men who listened to Ebrima's teacher in torturing him.
If Ebrima was not taken to the fire station by the teacher, all these
violence we are now witnessing, would not have happened. Think about
that.
Haruna Farage
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Subject: The Butchers of Banjul.
Author: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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Date: 4/10/00 11:37 PM
Haruna,
This piece was being written when the butchering of these young and innocent st
udents was emerging on the List.
Please read Yus's posting properly. He neither used the word "exonerated" nor im
plied to it for once. What Yus is saying is that the emphasis of blame should
bemore on those who murdered Ebrima Barry than the teacher. There is no legal
system that I know of, where the teacher could be held solely accountable for
the de ath of Barry. You said the teacher is "culpable" Yes, that maybe true,
but culpa bility is not always premeditation. It is a common thing for one to be
"culpable " of something that he is innocent of. The news of the massacre of
these poor iswhat Yusupha Jow is talking about. Are we now going to blame what
led to the demonstration or people who pulled the trigger?
The fact is YAYA MUST GO!!! AND GO HE WILL.
Prince
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<P>Haruna,</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2><FONT color=#0000ff>This piece was
being written when the butchering of these young and innocent students was
emerging on the List</FONT>.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Please read Yus's posting properly. He neither used the word
"exonerated" nor implied to it for once. What Yus is saying is that the emphasis
of blame should be more on those who murdered Ebrima Barry than the teacher.
There is no legal system that I know of, where the teacher could be held solely
accountable for the death of Barry. You said the teacher is "culpable" Yes, that
maybe true, but culpability is not always premeditation. It is a common thing
for one to be "culpable" of something that he is innocent of. The news of the
massacre of these poor is what Yusupha Jow is talking about. Are we now going to
blame what led to the demonstration or people who pulled the trigger? </P>
<P>The fact is YAYA MUST GO!!! AND GO HE WILL.</P>
<P>Prince </P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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