what the hell is going on in banjul?students being shut at,and brutally beaten for demonstrating for which they have a just cause.i think is time for jemus jammeh to go,his time is up.we need to find a way to get the students involve in the voting process.we need to start encouraging them to vote.what do you all think? >From: Haruna Farage <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: What happened to Ebrima Barry's teacher ? >Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:39:33 -0400 > > 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 > > >______________________________ Reply Separator >_________________________________ >Subject: Re: Re: What happened to Ebrima Barry's teacher ? >Author: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> at Internet >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! >! >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------