Secka, that's the spirit in which we should view this issue.  Just because a family member or friend's rights were not personally violated, does not mean we look the other way.  We may never feel the way all the victims in these violations felt during their ordeal, but we can certainly understand their agony.  My position is that Lokai and the countless victims are human and Gambian, therefore, when their rights are violated under the constitution of the Gambia, I am also violated.  I just mentioned Badou and Lokai, but I can easily list many names of victims of Chongan and his batch mates, and they (his batch mates) are certainly not the only ones.  Prior to the completion of the stadium, the Scorpions used to camp at the Police Depot, where Chongan et al underwent their training.  A great many of them were my friends or neighbors and I never wasted time to cautioned them (not Chongan in particular) that one day the tables are going to change, and the criminals will have to answer to the people.  Detainees from the Kukoi rampage, curfew violators, petty criminals, and others were brought in the camp and we all saw what happened to them.  Folks, we are all Gambians and have seen different things happen in that country at different times.  I am addressing Chongan because he has the courage to come forward to expose the thugs, and I would not have said anything had he also addressed his victims.  He understoodd and felt their pain, especially after his experience.  Those days are gone when we turn the other way because we are not directly affected.  What the thugs are doing now is just an extension of what they started 30 years or so ago.  What the NIA thugs did and continue to do to Dumo Saho is the same thing the CID did to him 25 years ago, and some of us can certainly testify to that.  The CIDs of yester years are the NIAs of today.  I was in the Gambia in 1999 and 2000, and the soldiers behaved just as bad as I left them  in 1985, only now they carry more lethal weapons and threaten to shoot anyone around.  They greet you with their thugry at the Air Port.