There he was in a three-piece suit professing both suprise and outrage at the European Union statement that essentially called on the murderous government for whom he is the chief diplomat to stop it's Gestapo tactics of gross human rights violations. With a straight face Sedat Jobe accused the victims of his government's thuggery and lawlessness as the one's who provoke the inhumane treatment meted out to them. As usual for regimes such as his, he tries to shamelessly revert to their own silly notions of sovereignty and national independence in a bid to rationalize government initiated terror on innocent civilians. True to the traditions of other tyrannies, Sedat Jobe wants the EU or the rest of the world to refrain from calling them the evil that they are. He even went as far as saying his government ought to be commended for countenancing a bail for Lawyer Darboe and his supporters on the ridiculous charges they have trumped up. Knowing fully well that he cannot take issue with the facts and premise of the EU statement, he tried to blame the severity of the tone on the EU representative . Has Sedat Jobe gone mad? What does he expect the diplomat to do? The EU is not at all interested in being in the good graces of a government as manifestly abhorrent as his. They are running a brutal dictatorship and that is what is going to be reflected on assessments by people who are sent by sovereign entities to do exactly that. They had a similar attitude when the US State department also released a devastating report earlier this year. He also tries to blame the opposition for their tarnished image overseas. My only regret is the opposition is not doing more to alert the international community about the endless atrocities this government is committing on a daily basis. We must redouble our efforts to further ensure the isolation of this rogue and criminal government at least through the very limited time the people of Gambia have to suffer their misrule. Sedat Jobe for his part is your quintessential African who inspite of a fine education, would do anything including rationalizing murder, abductions, torture and even forment chaos if he can personally benefit from from such evil. The only thing driving his incessant defence of a regime he clearly knows is destroying our country and subjecting our people to never ending cruelty is a strong desire to get money and privileges. To that end no cost is too high for the likes of Sedat Jobe. He will go to his grave an unfulfilled man regardless of all the material gains he is angling for. That is true for all crooks and men than that engage in the perpetration of evil. Karamba ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------