Gambia-L: Another mail from a source. It is addressed to Robin Cook. Ebrima ____________________________________________________________ >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: My protest note to Robin Cook > > >Ebrima, >Below Is my letter to the British Foreign Minister. I did not address a >letter to the British High Commissioner in Banjul for obvious reasons. >According to the auto reply from the FCOs web site, the comments will be >passed to te relevant department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. > ____________________ > >Dear Mr. Cook, > Re: THE GAMBIA: UK's RESUMPTION OF MILITARY COOPERATION >I am writing to express deep concern about the recent decision of the >British Government to resume military cooperation with the Government of >The Gambia after a seven-year suspension. > >This decision is coming at a time when the Jammeh regime is demonstrating >increasing intolerance towards legitimate and peaceful oppositon to his >regime. His most recent show of intolerance is the April massacre of at >least a dozen defenceless students who were demonstrating peacefully >against the murder of one student at the hands of personnel of the Fire >department and the raping of a school girl by a member of Jammeh's security >forces. Your Government's decision to resume military assistance, in the >view of many Gambians, will onlycontribute further to the repression of >defenceless Gambians at the hands of the military. > >Your Ethical Foreign Policy raised hopes of the oppressed in the Gambia and >in other parts of the world where human rights abuses are common. With the >resumption of military cooperation with regimes like the one in The Gambia, >these hopes seem to have been dashed unless a review of the decision is >undertaken with a view to reversing it. > >What the Gambia needs now more than ever is development assistance that >will address the acute level of poverty prevailing in the country rather >than arming the repressive regime of yahya Jammeh. > >For your information, I have addressed a similar letter to the British >Prime Minister. > >Yours sincerely, > >A CONCERNED GAMBIAN > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.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 and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------