>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: matchete-wielding jammeh; hire & fire 60 ministers & counting >Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:13:20 EDT > >In a message dated 7/24/2001 10:37:53 PM Central Daylight Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > > > > Ngouri > > chagga it may be, but it is meeting the aspirations of the people. > > > > Have a good day, Gassa. > > > >Which people? The praise singers who hope for crumbs from his table, and the >others who are collaborators in his many crimes against the people? They >hardly represent the mases of the people who have nothing but poverty that is >worsening under this regime, coupled with abuses of all sorts, and threats >and fear. > >Was it not just the other day when our illustroius president in announcing >that he had lifted the ban on some of his fellow Gambians used his trademark >threat of burying anyone who threatens the security of the state "six feet >deep" in the same speech? > >Everyone both in Gambia as well as outside now know that "threatening the >security if the state amounts to nothing more than just expressing your >opinion in Gambia these days. So much for meeting the aspirations of the >people. They need this kind of meeting their aspirations like they need a >hole in the head. > >It is sad that you have been dispatched here or have come here thinking that >sending these sorts of responses to any criticism of this regime will >actually counter the reputation and documented atrocities that the World is >already aware of. > > >Jabou Joh > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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. >----------------------------------------------------------------------------