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Sent: 25 April 2000 14:39 PM
Subject: Re: SOLDIERS OF THE GAMBIA
ARMY
Go get him Ebou, bloodlessly, if possible, but by
any means JAMMEH MUST GO!!
Prince Coker
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Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 5:41
AM
Subject: SOLDIERS OF THE GAMBIA
ARMY
SOLDIERS OF THE GAMBIA ARMY
Soldiers of the Gambia
Army it is indeed a reassuring
feeling to learn that there are some of
you who have
totally regretted the killing of the innocent
children
you were forced to shoot by Yaya. And most of you have
also
realized that the despot is making all efforts to
shift the blame on
you. Anyway after clearing his
image, he would then as usual send
few bulls with a
couple of thousand Dalasis to each of your camps for
f
you to feast on and praise him as the good leader. You
will
understand what I am exactly telling you. Anyway
just remember that your
hands have been soiled by
children's blood.
It is however
understandable that you were
inadequately equipped, under prepared,
misled and
misinformed that sad day. In the first place you all
know
how Yaya has been systematically undermining the
efficiency of the GNA
through a deliberate conspiracy
of robbing you of the right equipment,
the right
talents and the proper training. And those elite
vampires,
freeloaders, and patronage junkies lying all
over to protect their perks
and benefits have only
made things look uglier. The bottom line up
front was
that you were sent out that day to control a riot
situation
which none of you were ever trained or
prepared to handle in your
military careers. In the
first place Ak47 assault rifles should not have
been
issued for that civil disturbance operation at all,
let alone
arming the security forces with them. On the
other hand I can understand
why they were issued,
because there are nothing in your armories to
equip
yourselves with for the assignment. That was the first
step to
the disaster that later unfolded in the
operation.
Lets be frank
to each other, the GNA does not in
anyway understand the proper method
of
riot-controlling, neither does it have the means to do
so. If we
are to reflect back to the only consignment
of good riot -controlling
gears that the GNA ever had,
I could remember in 1998, there were only
about 200
gas masks donated by Libya. But like the ten T-54
tanks and
the ninety-two 35mm artillery pieces from
Egypt, the APCS, plus all your
other good equipment
meant to improve your competence technically
and
tactically, Yaya simply took all of them from the
camps and hid
them at the State House. The typical
Mobutu Style of securing himself at
the expense of his
nation. As ignorant as Yaya is about the dynamics
of
heavy weapons however, he does not know that after
keeping those
arsenals without firing or properly
aligning them for even six months
they permanently
lose their technical configurations, hence
rendering
them useless. I may as well advise him to find a
junkyard
and dump those tanks and artillery pieces
that have never worked and
would never do again.
However the issue here is about you the
soldiers.
Yaya is indirectly pointing his fingers to you as the
child
killers when he was the very one who manipulated
you into the operations.
And unfortunately, your
leaders who should have guided you on the
operational
principles of using minimum force under such
circumstances
lacked the proper education to do so. It
is no secret that some of you,
the ordinary soldiers
are far better educated than your Chief of
Staff
Baboucarr Jatta and Yaya Jammeh himself. Nonetheless,
they were
the leaders you had depended on to guide you
and of course protect your
actions if they turned
unfavorable as in this regrettable case. But look
at
them now. Yaya in particular who gave the orders by
referring to
the school children as "the bastards who
should be dealt with without
mercy", is now giving the
impression to the world that if he had been in
the
country that day he would have prevented you, the
murderers, from
killing the kids. Certainly, out here,
most of us very well understand
that Yaya led you into
this unprecedented act, quite unbecoming of
good
soldiers with the right leadership. For Yaya to
disassociate
himself from this massacre should be
termed the betrayal of the
millennium. In a war
situation, leaders like him and Baboucarr Jatta
are
given hasty court martial hearings and shot like all
traitors
deserved.
But by our judgement here, we have already found
him
guilty of two capital crimes. (1) He has ordered the
murder of our
finest sons and daughters who could have
been our leaders tomorrow; plus
(2) he has betrayed
the security forces that acted exclusively on
his
orders in the slaughter.
As a result, I urged you to
act. This is the time to
get rid of Yaya Jammeh by all the means you can
apply.
Of course, some of you have already registered your
commitment
to do it, which if successfully done, would
be the most progressive and
noble thing you would have
done for the peace-loving Gambian people.
Gambia does
not deserve a person like Yaya. He has lied in
your
names, killed in your names, cheated and stole in your
names,
humiliated you and then in this latest
incident, ordered the killing of
our children,
brothers and sisters. Yet it is apparent that
dictators
like him would foolishly refuse to accede to
popular demand for them to
step down and give chance
to genuine democracy to the point of their own
perils
and to the extent of even destroying the whole
country. Anyway
before this retarded imbecile destroys
the nation you the soldiers must
take the initiative.
The removal of Yaya from that seat would be
the
greatest service you could do for The Gambian people
and mankind
in general. Yaya's killing instinct is a
mental attitude. And The Gambia
is a small family,
peopled by decent men and women who for
generations
would not kill each other for any reason whatsoever.
The
more time you give to this evil character the
greater risk the Gambian
people stand to suffer in the
future.
Remember how it was done in
1994? If the senior ones
are too timid to do it, let the junior
officers do it.
But you must conduct the operation with the
genuine
intention of calling the civilians to take over the
political
platform in the shortest possible time.
Between us, we all know that Yaya
is not a real
soldier. He only pretends to be one when in actual
fact
he is the worst person in uniform who has ever
existed in your midst. How
many of you have honestly
ever seen the fool firing a weapon, leading a
tactical
operation, conducting a land navigation exercise or
going
through a BFT? The guy is false in that uniform
but has been hiding
behind it with the worst abuses
imaginable. So GNA soldiers must
realize that the day
of reckoning is quite close now, when Yaya and
his
cohorts would pay the price of their evil deeds.
You must not
allow the outside forces under
mobilization now to come and do it for
you. History
would not forgive you for that in anyway. And
most
important of all, there are far too many
outstanding
intellectuals waiting to come and work for the
Gambia
after the removal of Yaya the moron. Some of the best
and
finest Gambian brains within or outside the
country cannot be utilized
because they are humans
governed by conscience and integrity. Their
positive
characters and codes of conduct made them true persons
who
would rather die than succumb to the terrorist
rule of a semi-educated
tyrant. Helping the Gambian
people lose Yaya therefore is a historical
obligation
you must fulfil. That would not only mean rescuing
our
nation at the brink of an imminent disaster but should
also be the
only acceptable gesture the GNA could make
to restore its former
prestigious image. It would be
popular, blessed, respected and cherished
throughout
the world from Africa to Europe to Asia and the
Americas.
Without that, be rest assured that the
members of the GNA should continue
counting themselves
as passengers in Yaya's aircraft to hell where
he
would be landing for killing our children.
May god bless you
all.
Ebou
Colly
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