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>Subject: Reflections
>Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:40:47 EDT
>
>With the Presidential elections about three months away, it is increasingly
>getting crystal clear that the government of Yahya Jammeh has no intention of
>conducting a free and fair poll. In a bid to achieve their evil aims of
>thwarting the wishes of the Gambian people, they have a crafted a combination
>strategy of lying to the international community about their intentions and
>using every imaginable underhanded tactic domestically to literally enslave
>our citizens. List members and the people of our country by extension can
>take solace in the fact that all the international institutions and important
>friends of the Gambian people from the United Nations, the commonwealth, the
>EU and US government will oppose vehemently this murderous regime's attempt
>to cling unto power by unlawful means. When the Commonwealth met in Durban,
>South Africa at their last heads of government meeting, Yahya's regime was
>singled out for justifiable condemnation and to avoid sanctions, the
>government was compelled to undertake specific commitments like getting rid
>of odious decrees, allowing for equal access in the public airwaves and
>ending the harassment of opponents. None of these undertakings have been
>fulfilled by the government and the Commonwealth has taken due notice of the
>governments steadfast refusal to treat it's citizens according to the norms
>of the organization. Apparently the Jammeh government believes it can
>substitute it's written obligations to the Commonwealth with insincere
>promises of action. It is been months since Secretary General Mckinnon was
>told that the government would begin removing decrees and upholding actual
>democracy. They are counting on running the clock on these important changes
>up to the last few weeks before the elections and then suddenly coming into
>compliance when it would have no intrinsic value for the Gambian people. It
>is worth noting that the entire international community have similar sets of
>objections when it comes to this regime and I expect all of them (UN, EU, US,
>UK, Commonwealth) to reject as unacceptable a delayed adherence to the
>stipulations meant to let the Gambian people select their leaders. You would
>probably soon hear either Sedat Jobe or Yankuba or some other lackey
>proclaim the government's intention of doing the right thing by removing
>decrees or opening GRTS to all Gambians . This regime does not want to
>compete for a mandate because they will not win under any circumstances. What
>our nation must avoid at all cost is to inadvertently provide an opportunity
>in which these killers and charlatans can steal an election. To that end, we
>must all insist on an election that guarantees the full participation of all
>Gambians under clearly defined rules, supervised by outside monitors and run
>by an IEC that is legally constituted and is endorsed by all participants. A
>coalition of all the parties should come together and insist on these basic
>conditions and demand that the government meet them by a date certain (July
>31). If the government fails to respond, UDP, NRP and PDOIS should announce a
>united boycott of the election and ask their supporters to come to Banjul in
>their tens of thousands on the 18 of October to reclaim their government from
>these thugs. The reason for this is announcing only a boycott without forcing
>a resolution would mean leaving this very regime in place because they can
>always maintain a ragtag bureaucracy despite the isolation and penury an
>uncontested election would bring. None participation has to be a definite
>prelude to removal. Tens of thousands of Gambians marching to take their
>government cannot be stopped and they won't be. The Jammeh regime is trying
>to make Gambians what they have never been: unwitting participants in their
>own doom. The nation must decide if they would lumber along and wallow in
>their misery or take charge of their own destiny and do what is right by
>their family, their nation and their GOD. There is no middle ground between
>the forces of good and evil. As a nation we must decide if a Gestapo like
>regime drenched in the blood of innocent Gambians would be allowed to stay
>through lying, cheating and corruption or we would wipe the slate clean and
>foster a strong democracy.
>Karamba
>
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