Hi Prince, May I first of all expressed my deepest sympathy and sorrow to the families of the deceased for the untimely dead of their heros and loved ones, in an unforeseen circumstances, APRIL 10,2000. Prince, this is another case where the blame is not squarely on the people who pulled the triger on innocent lives but onto those who gave the orders for a triger to be pulled. Prince, you see, in any criminal offence among individuals, there must be an element of conspiracy first, to commit the said act. To conspire in simple terms, means an agreement between two or more individuals who plan in order to execute their ill intentions. If a soldier is trained only to obey commands and to kill but not to be killed, and subsequently, the soldier is giving command to kill as part of his job. Who is to blame in this instance, if he is giving the command to kill and he killed? The one who gave the commands and the one who executed the command are both answerable. I think, the army should only be trained to kill but should also be trained to undertake other skills like engineers, constructors and other skills, whereby the soldiers weapon would not only be restricted to the gun but on other avenues that distract one from this monster weapon. The teacher who took Ebrima Barry to the Fire service is responsible for whatever transpired at the fire station to Ebrima, as well as the fire men who listened to Ebrima's teacher in torturing him. If Ebrima was not taken to the fire station by the teacher, all these violence we are now witnessing, would not have happened. Think about that. Haruna Farage ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: The Butchers of Banjul. Author: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> at Internet Date: 4/10/00 11:37 PM Haruna, This piece was being written when the butchering of these young and innocent st udents was emerging on the List. Please read Yus's posting properly. He neither used the word "exonerated" nor im plied to it for once. What Yus is saying is that the emphasis of blame should bemore on those who murdered Ebrima Barry than the teacher. There is no legal system that I know of, where the teacher could be held solely accountable for the de ath of Barry. You said the teacher is "culpable" Yes, that maybe true, but culpa bility is not always premeditation. It is a common thing for one to be "culpable " of something that he is innocent of. The news of the massacre of these poor iswhat Yusupha Jow is talking about. Are we now going to blame what led to the demonstration or people who pulled the trigger? The fact is YAYA MUST GO!!! AND GO HE WILL. Prince