Yus,
I hereby strongly disagree with your position of exonerating the
school teacher from blame for the tragic death of Ebrima Barry, and
instead put the blame squarely on the law enforcement officers.This is
not only a misconstruction but also negligence on your part to assess
the situation that led Poor Ebrima, in the wrong hands, in the first
place.
The teacher is as culpable as any other individual for the tragic
death of a poor school boy striving to make ends meet.
You said that there was no way he could forsee the fate of Ebrima.
This is another negligent reasoning you brought forward to reason out
but you failed to analysed the reason why the teacher did not report
him to the headmaster for any disciplinary actions as is usually the
case? The reason why he failed to report him to the school authorities
and instead choose the fire service and not the police station is for
a hidden motive, which the school teacher alone is able to respond to.
Any investigations to be conducted, the teacher should be the first to
give account why he took Ebrima to the fire service and the
instructions therein he gave, if any.
With all due respect, with these assertions of yours, are unjust to
family and the deceased, who has been denied of his rights to
education by a school teacher and right to life, because of hatred and
other ill motives.
Haruna Farage
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Subject: Re: Re: What happened to Ebrima Barry's teacher ?
Author: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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Date: 4/7/00 11:19 PM
Kibily, I don't think that anyone can blame the teacher for the tragic series
ofevents that happened after Ebrima was handed over to the law. He had no way
of foreseeing what was to happen next, and no disrespect to the deceased, but
thereare circumstances when the law has to be called to control unruly students.
The real culprits here are the law enforcement authorities and the people that
have tried to cover-up this atrocious crime. The law enforcement authorities
and, mo re recently, the army have always had a reputation of being extremely
cruel to s uspects, whether guilty or not. I vividly remember the late Sgt.
Kujabi repeate dly head butting and slapping suspects as his method of
interrogation. Usually the suspect would confess immediately just out of fear
for his or her own life. I witnessed grown men getting whipped by overzealous
police officers and also heard stories about cases where the suspects were
shocked with live electric wires . To make the issue worse, J!
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awara disbanded the field force and formed the GNA, and they too started to viol
ate the human rights of the average Gambian. Just based on this brief history,
one can clearly see that the problem is a human rights issue and average Gambian
's apathy towards this alarming trend. No one deserves to be beaten, tortured o
r killed without a fair trial in a court of law.
What irks me the most is the ambiguity of the autopsy report that is published i
n the Independent newspaper. This is an excerpt from the report that describes
the official cause of death:
Quote
On the Cause of Death, the report cites 'Infaret of the right lung located in th
e middle lobe and base with severe hemorrhagic necrosis. Severe edema of both l
ungs. Acute respiratory insufficiency, Hepatic esteatosis.'
Unquote
As you can see, one has to be a doctor to figure out what the cause of death
is.I even tried using a dictionary to look for the meanings of infaret and
estatotis. The language used to describe the cause of death was not put in
layman's ter ms simply because someone wants to cover up what transpired.
The time has come when we to confront these human rights abuses. We can no long
er afford to sit back and watch while the humans rights of innocent civilians ar
e being infringed upon by the very people that are supposed to protect us. The
news media should stop regurgitating these verbatim reports from official source
s, and instead start launching their own investigative reports. Independent, ar
e you listening? In addition, we the Gambian public should abandon this "laisse
z-faire" attitude and start being more vigilant about these abuses. Perhaps
andindependent, non biased investigative team should be started to investigate
reports of abuses by the military, and also to figure out ways of curbing this
distu rbing trend. In the meantime, God bless our beloved country.
Yus
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