thanks yus,this is what we need to do. We need to start taking ACTION now.There is no time to procrastinate. >From: Yusupha Jow <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Gambia Has Lost Her Innocence (some snippets) >Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:58:47 EDT > >Mr Gassama, I would like to piggy back on your post to add a few additional >news tidbits that the BBC's Network Africa has reported. As Ebrima Ceesay >confirmed earlier, the unrest has now spread to the provinces. There have >been reports of students going on the rampage in Janjanbureh and Farafenni. >In Janjanbureh, especially, government property has again been destroyed. > >On the casualty figures, the BBC' s reporter in Banjul, Ebrima Sillah, said >that he visited the mortuary in Banjul and was told by at least 12 >different >parents that they had lost their loved ones. One particularly moving >interview with a Sierra Leonean immigrant who lost his son almost drove me >to >tears. > >Mr. Sillah, further said that the Gambian public is confused about the >spate >of events. Not because the students rioted, but about why the security >forces >would shoot innocent children? Meanwhile, all parents in the Kombos have >been cautioned to keep their kids at home. > >I would like to add that for those of you questioning why the students >rioted >and those making excuses for the stupid brutes who are directly responsible >for the killings, there is only so much that the human spirit can take >before >unrest happens. We have seen it time and time again in history. These >students were smart enough to realize that Ebrima Barry's death was a >manifestation of a much larger problem that the country was facing, >incompetence, indifference and just a state of affairs that had spiraled >out >of control due to the barbaric rule of a mad semi-illiterate despot. > >But I assure you that they did not die in vain. All the school kids that >died yesterday, including the three year old boy that also got shot down, >are >martyrs who died fighting for basic human rights and decency in our >country. >Let us never forget them. > >The time has come for a collective action. Let us take action quickly and >put all these plans that have been suggested into motion. > >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------