Saiks, thanks for the report. At least Dumo is alive. But the injustice
meted against the brother and his alleged co-conspirators, is just
incomprehensible. To think that in this day and age we have such POLITICAL
PRISONERS in the country. You are right that if they had the evidence they
would have paraded it out there and convicted these people a long time ago.
Thanks to the vigilance of people like Mrs. Saho that publicized this
matter, Dumo et al are not just bundled up and wrongly convicted. Left to
the vermin alone, they will set up kangaroo courts and cook up bogus
evidence to convict these innocent citizens. But they know that the whole
world is watching. That is why they do not want to go to court.

As Ebou Colly make his revelations, I hope it will become clearer to
Gambians what the conditions are like behind those prison walls for people
that have been wrongly accused by this regime for these bogus coup plots. It
is pathetic. People are routinely tortured. Not given decent food to eat.
Not allowed to use sanitary toilet facilities, you name it. And to compound
the problem, you are left with the uncertainly about your fate. As you
rightly pointed out, Dumo's life could be wasted through these bogus
allegations from pathological liars like Foday Barry. This should have been
a wake-up call for most Gambians. The government has lowered the threshold
so much so that they can virtually pick up anyone they dislike, put you in
jail incommunicado, torture you, and frame you for a crime you did not
commit. And all this time, you have people pretending as if nothing wrong is
happening in the country.

This lawlessness has to be unmasked and should be stopped. Dumo et al are
behind bars because of the ruling of a silly magistrate that has been
practicing law for less than a decade. That ruling directly contradicts the
ruling of a High Court Judge. Now our courts do not even want to hear an
appeal to reconcile these contradictory rulings. What are these courts for?
Judges do not even have the guts to hear cases and tell magistrates that
they are wrong. Only in Gambia.

Saiks, we must continue to inform the international community about the
POLITICAL PRISONERS in The Gambia. This lawlessness is intolerable. All the
man asks is for his day in court. But Dumo can find solace in the fact that
Pap Cheyassin Secka (the man that orchestrated his abduction and illegal
incarceration), is a prisoner himself. The man is so ashamed of his
despicable actions that he is a virtual recluse. He cannot show his face in
public gatherings with people that knew him all his life. I know this is
little consolation to Dumo et al, because at least Secka gets to lock
himself up at home with his wife and children. But this goes to show that
the truth will always prevail. It did not take guns and concrete walls and
lies to imprison Pap Cheyassin Secka. All the vermin are prisoners; Yaya,
Sarjo Jallow, they are all prisoners. They cannot look Dumo in the eye and
tell him he is guilty. Dumo et al will be released. Lies cannot prevail.
KB



>From: Saikou Samateh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: DUMO SAHO A SYMBOL  OF INJUSTICE
>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:11:37 +0100
>
>   DUMO  SAHO, A SYMBOL OF INJUSTICE
>
>During one of my visit to Dumo I met with two Scandinavian couples who were
>visiting him.It was their last day of visit,they were to retuned back to
>Sweden,it was a very moving moment when they were leaving,they cried,they
>did try to hide their tears from him but he without doubt knew that they
>were as bitter as he was.It was not a question of being sorry for him,but a
>question of feeling the injustice even though one does not share the same
>condition with him behind the prison walls.It is human to feel this way but
>very inhuman to be indifferent to the conditions he keeps telling us exist
>behind those walls.
>  The seriousness of the charges level against Dumo ,that he was involved
>in plans to overthrow the Government,a crime in which if found guilty could
>mean the end of his days.But how serious must we take the State in such a
>case when for more than 10 months they are still not able to set up a
>serious court proceedings?Is the situation not proving some of us right
>when we all the time insist that this is a question of  trying to silent
>the Brother for his opposition to the fascist  regime and set an example
>for the rest of us ?Is the delay of justices not a proof that the State has
>no evidence to bring forward in convincing the court that Dumo was involved
>in a plan to overthrow the government ?Knowing this regime as I do,had they
>enough evidence,there would have been a televise proceedings of this case
>for many months ago.But as  Comrade Dumo also always keep insisting on,why
>are they not taking  him to court to proof to the Gambian people and the
>whole world that he was involved in a crime against the State,why the
>delay,why.
>The serious problem facing the Judicial system in our country could
>evidently be found in the constant crisis facing that Department,they even
>had to fired their own man Pap Che for reasons known only to them.The
>firing and hiring of judges based not on their professional qualities but
>on the simple facts that they have taking decisions against,not the
>interest of justice or the Gambian People,but against the interest of the
>AFPRC.
>When such is the situation how can we have trust in our Judicial system
>?Any Judge taking decision,that involved the interest of the AFPRC regime
>would always have at the back of his/her mind that he/she has a choice to
>make,that is ,either to be loyal to the ethics of the profession,by looking
>at the facts  presented or save his skin by going according to the wishes
>of the AFPRC.
>A politicised Judicial System is always at war with her nation.The  Gambian
>People have a deep sense of justice and they are using every possible
>moments to express their  indignation and bitterness against the Judicial
>system.That they have no trust in it is no hidden fact,that is why all
>those I spoke to about the comrade,for them,he  is a symbol of injustice in
>their country.Denying him Justice is in contrary not producing any fear of
>the Fascist Sate in their minds,it has prepared the Gambian People in their
>opposition against the fascist State,they know the price they have to pay
>and they tell you.When those couples return to their country they will have
>to tell many of the injustice in our country but they would certainly tell
>that it is because of the struggle against this injustice that their
>Gambian friend is still behind the bars.In other words,that the Gambian
>People are not indifferent to the conditions in their country.
>
>For Freedom
>Saiks
>
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