I join everyone in mourning the deaths and solidarity to the injured. My solidarity also goes to the students in taking such a courageous move to show the government that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.  I just could not believe my ears upon arrival in UK. I called home to speak to my mum and she told me that "Ndey, today our hearts are broken, broken to the disbelief that soldiers who are suppose to protect the students can just kill them on a peaceful demonstrations" " You should just see these kids in the wrong place which is the DEATH HOUSE" These words hit me so hard that I refused to believe it, but like Ous has said one should not be suprised but I must say I just could not get over this brutality. This is a lesson to the regime  that all the guns of the world, the casuistry of dictatorship and the threat of death and imprisonment cannot deter a people determined to secure their rights and justice.

Reflecting and accessing these developments at home and watching Gambia go down the drain through the incompetence and banditry of the ruling military and civilian politicians, I became strongly in my conviction that the only thing that could save Gambia is the political restructuring of the country.

I do agree on some of the suggestions that are coming up  to write a protest letter but I do also believe that we have to mobilise and condemn this act  right at the front of the Gambian Mission were ever they are and there are Gambians.  Unfortunately I am on my way to Nigeria this evening but hopefully I will be able to have easy access to the net.

As Ken Sara Wiwa wrote " to be at the mercy of buffoons is the ultimate insult, To find the instruments of the state power reducing you to dust is the injury"

The Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh

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    Date: 10 April 2000 23:39
    Subject: Re: Massacre in The Gambia
    
    
    
    Thomas Sankara once said
    " A Soldier  without political education is a virtual beast"
    
    May their Souls rest in perfect peace!!!!
    
    
    
    
    Basiru Ndow