MRDGUK, This is simply fantastic. I applaud you for this achievement. There is no better way to put the record straight and counteract the junk information the British High Commissioner in Banjul is obviously feeding the British Foreign Office. We have total confidence in you and we know that by the end of the session you would have convinced these officials about the callousness of the dictatorship back home. Yaya's dismal record will be exhibited for everyone to see. He has moved Gambians from the frying pan to the fire. Never in our history has so many children been massacred in broad daylight. Never have we seen the level of lawlessness that now permeate our society. Never has the ordinary Gambian experienced this level of poverty. The level of corruption Yaya and his cohorts are engaged in, is also new in The Gambia. All these facts are documented, and we believe you would not have any difficulties laying them in front of the British Parliamentarians. At the end of the day, Yaya sympathizers like the British High Commissioner in Banjul, have to bring concrete facts to counteract what we in the opposition are saying. Yaya and his cohorts have to justify murder. They have to justify the numerous abductions and arson attacks in the country. They have to justify the numerous undemocratic laws in the country. In other words, Yaya and his cohorts have to help the British reconcile their "Ethical Foreign Policy" with the callousness Yaya visits on the Gambian people. When we give the British all the facts, we should then ask them to ask Yaya for his side of the story. If Yaya cannot come up with logical reasons (we all know that the vermin is incapable of justifying murder), then the British have to write Yaya off, just like the Americans did. After all the facts are in, I hope the British will rethink their decision to further arm a dictator that will not hesitate to unleash deadly force on children as young as three. The British cannot reconcile their "Ethical Foreign Policy" with resumption of military cooperation with a dictator that is worst than Idi Amin Dada. The machine that is going to be used to massacre defenseless children, should not be greased by civilized nations. While discussing the resumption of military cooperation with the dictatorship, we should resolve not to accept cock and bull stories about Gambia's contributions to peace-keeping operations in the sub-region. As we pointed out before, our contributions to these missions are negligible. Those contributions certainly do not merit this type of gesture from the British. Because Gambia sends three or four soldiers to Sierra Leone does not mean that the British should try and legitimize the dictatorship and help train the soldiers that Yaya will use to massacre our children and intimidate political opponents. Besides, the UN Security Council report on "Blood Diamonds" has to be taken into consideration when revisiting Gambia's role in Sierra Leone. The British have to withdraw the scholarships given to Yaya's armed mercenaries (that will not hesitate to murder innocent Gambians in order to protect a paranoid Yaya). The British have to cease all military cooperation with The Gambia until we have a democratically elected government led by someone whose hands are not tainted with the blood of our children. Henceforth, the British officials should also be critical of the information fed to them by their High Commissioner in Banjul. The man obviously is insensitive to the plight of ordinary Gambians. I say that because no decent person would aid and abet Yaya by helping him to build up the army that he uses to brutalize Gambians. Once again, I thank all the members and supporters of MRDGUK. Your efforts are commendable. I might not be with you, in person, when you talk to these officials, but I will be with you in spirit. I look forward to your feed back to G_L after the briefing. KB >From: "MOVEMENT FOR THE RESTORATION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE GAMBIA (UK)" > <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: BRIEFING AT THE UK HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. >Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:08:22 -0000 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------