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
Thomas Sankara once said
" A
Soldier without political education is a virtual
beast"
May their Souls rest in perfect
peace!!!!
Basiru Ndow