Your "excellency" Bokarr Sey, it is absolutely shocking and sad that you have chosen this moment to further your government's cause. As an official representative of the Gambia govt, you should have joined all of us in condemning what happened today. Instead you chose to represent yourself and govt by using half truths and half baked statements. In your attempt to dissociate the regime from today's tragic incident you state: Quote I want to put it you personally that there is no one amongst us serving under Jammeh and Jammeh himself who would be so irresponsible to order the massacre of students Unquote In response to this statement, my question is whether the top military commanders in the GNA do not serve under Jammeh? Unless the military chain of command has completely crumbled, your statement, coming from the Gambian Ambassador to France, should be considered as a shameful attempt to cover the truth. In your continuing bumbled attempt to defend I don't know what, you state: Quote I want those of you whirling accusations to know that some of those students who lost their lives are closely related to people working under Jammeh.Some are related to Jammeh himself. Did you know that? Unquote This statement is not relevant in relation to what happened today. As far as most of us are concerned, all that counts is that innocent students were killed today. I even doubt the validity of the statement you made since there is no evidence to support your claims. Unfortunately, you have chosen this time to defend your regime. But history has been the best judge of tyrants and their coconspirators. Time will tell! 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------