Mr. Bamba Laye Jallow, You point is well taken. I would just want to reemphasize some few things. There are many opinions on this forum as there are members, and I believe each one of us is entitled to express them. Therefore I am under no pretensions that you or any body will take me seriously or not-that is an individual choice, and we all can learn to disagree as you just did respectfully. However, I want to make some few corrections to your comments. I am not pointing any finger at the Jolas. If this was a Mandinka, Wollof or Fula issue, I will call it as it is. Labeling Nazism a German ethno-nationalist syndrome dose not in anyway translate into rubbing one's thumb on ethnic sensitivities. In Cassamance, 60% of the population are Jolas, and from which most of these separatist activities are more potent. The elite of the Attika, the armed wing, detest the settlement of the other minority ethnic groups, and in fact they have resorted to terror in the past to emphasize their position. In our sub-region, the Jolas of Cassamance led by the MFDC are the only ethnic group involved in ethnocentric separatist politics. If anyone does not consider this a serious threat to the stability and security of the sub-region, then one must be on under some illusions. Ethnic sensitiveness is of course crucial to the well being of any state with multiple ethnic groups such as the Gambia and Senegal. Yet to apply such social platitudes when faced with the ugly head of reality is tantamount to superstition, a trademark of primitive thinking. Finally Mr. Bamba Laye my task here is to voice my opinion just like anybody else, and that is very small compared to a lot of other things I am currently doing not known to the public. This is a "Bantaba" remember! You too have a good day my brother. Ebou Jallow ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface ----------------------------------------------------------------------------