Today is nine months since our children were brutally slain by Yaya's security forces acting on Yaya's orders. Five months after the gruesome massacre, I wrote a similar reminder in which I focused mainly on the silence of civic leaders back home vis-a-vis the injustice that was being meted to the victims of the massacre. Nine months down the line, we are in a worst state than we were four months ago. The evidence that should have been used to convict the culprits in a court of law is now virtually non-existent. Thanks to the bogus coroner's inquest and commission of inquiry, the government has succeeded in destroying most of the evidence in this case. But all is not lost. When the time comes, people will come out and categorically say that they heard Yaya himself order the shooting. This is the day am living for. The day Yaya will be hoist like a common criminal before a court of law to answer for his crimes. I have no doubt in mind that the coward will kick and scream, but that day will come soon. I reiterate my appeal to civic leaders back home to continue fighting for our children. As we demand justice for the slain children, we should also remember the victims with the physical and mental scars gotten from the massacre. I also take this opportunity to appeal to the diplomats in the country (especially the British ambassador) to show more sensitivity to the sufferings of ordinary Gambians. A few thousand dalasis gift from Yaya to the students can never heal the wounds that were opened April 10 and 11. A bogus coroner's inquest and commission of inquiry report that is gathering dust on Yaya's desk, cannot begin to assuage the grieving Gambian public. Leaks from the commission report stating that the school children should be blamed for their massacre are not signs of a document that aims to unite the Gambian people. Under these circumstances, if diplomats back home cannot ask their respective governments to condemn Yaya unequivocally, they do not deserve to call themselves diplomats from civilized nations. It is therefore unacceptable to the suffering Gambians for the diplomats in the country to be reporting back to their governments that all is well in Gambia and Gambians are happy with the current state of affairs. I do not know the experiences of these diplomats with Africans. But I can tell them that some of the insanity that goes on in Gambia might be the norm in other African societies, but Gambians have NEVER experienced such callousness. It will NEVER be normal for us to see our children massacred by the security forces that are meant to protect them. Gambia is unrecognizable to those of us that were born and bred there. The murders, the rapes, the abductions, the arsons, the corruption etc. are all vices that came to us in this magnitude after 1994. You could count the number of people that were murdered in the country from Independence to 1994 and it will be less than fifty people; am even leaning on the high side here. So to the diplomats, I say that we are NOT a bunch of losers that are destined to be ruled by some callous dictator. We are NOT lucky Yaya is not as brutal as Idi Amin. Folks, you will be surprised to know that these are the ridiculous reasoning of some of these so-called diplomats. What is sad is, these are the erroneous reports they give their governments back home. That is, if their respective government is even interested in getting a report from The Gambia. There is no consistency in what these people do. Take the British government for instance. Few months ago, they were rewarding the Yaya government for their 'good work' in Sierra Leone by giving Gambian soldiers scholarships to go to Sandhurst and sending a high-powered military delegation to Gambia. Presumably at the same time, there was a British in the UN Security Council overseeing a report that indicated that the Yaya government was involved in smuggling 'blood diamonds'. How can these diplomats reconcile these conflicting positions? The only explanation I have, is that these people do not even sit down to think about their actions. They will gladly arm a dictator like Yaya to brutalize the Gambian citizens, so long as the idiot is willing to put Gambian lives (instead of British lives) in jeopardy in Sierra Leone. I would have thought that the revelations in the UN Security Council will make the British revisit their clearly insensitive policies towards Gambian children. Gambian contribution to these peace-keeping missions is negligible. Coupled with that, it has been revealed that Gambia was not keeping peace after all. For the sake of the children Yaya has brutalized and continues to brutalize, we again appeal to the decency of the British people to rethink their policy to arm Yaya. We also appeal to all the diplomats to notify their respective governments that up to this day, no justice has been given to the victims of the massacre that happened nine months ago. There are numerous children that will forever be scarred by the tragic massacre. There are poor Gambian families that are forced to take care of their children that suffered gunshot wounds. Some of the children they are taking care of should have finished school by now and become productive citizens in a position to help their families. 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