Ebou, once again thanks for maintaining your ignorance and please do keep it flowing. Joe Sambou >From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: NEW ILLEGAL 50 DALASIS NOTES IN CIRCULATION >Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:52:03 EDT > >Ousainou Ngum, Isatou Badjie and all other sincere Jolas, > >I never in anyway imply anything negative towards the Jolas as a group. I >think you people are blowing the phrase out of context. No single sincere >Jola has any reason to be alarmed. All I am saying is that ethnocentric >Jola >nationalism as professed by some factions of the MFDC and fully supported >by >Yaya Jammeh and some Jola elites in Senegal is evidently sinister! Since >the inception of this Cassamance struggle in the forties by Emile Badiane, >till his death in early 1970s, the movement had been a legetimate political >entity. When in 1982, after the intervention of France, and a thorough >arbitration, the Sovereignty of Senegal over Cassamance was once again >confirmed. Since then Diamacone Senghor politicised the issue that finally >led to the formation of the various rebel wings, the Attika. The Attika is >a very Jola organization and infact they have in the past practiced 'ethnic >cleansing', mined their sanctuaries which they purport to be "sacred >forests", raped, tortured and brutalized non-Jola ethnic citizens of the >Cassamance. Until I left the AFPRC I know that Yaya was nose deep into >playing ethnocentric politics since he has an eternal hatred for the >Mandikas simply because he believes that they are very proud people and >they >shall never under any circumstances ever support him. Again this resulted >in his initiation of a two prong strategy one a regionalization program to >gain lattitute to 'develop' the Fonis at the expense of the Gambian state, >and two to arm his kins folk who has this overarching agenda to create a >Jola state within Senegal that straddles the Gambia and Guinea Bissau. >Mr Joe Sambou, let us keep the argument very objective and subdue the >emotions a little bit. I am only trying to enlighten people on this forum >to know what they are currently dealing with in the Gambia. I have more >Jola blood in me than you think. > > >Greetings > >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 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------