I first of all wish to express my sincere condolence to the family of the young man that was senselessly massacred yesterday and by extension to the entire Opposition family that is fighting to liberate our country from tyranny. No single Gambian blood should have been spilled in this quest to remove from office the man that ordered the slaughter (in cold blood) of defenseless children as young as three. The reign of terror will end tomorrow. Having said that, I want to also say that every Gambian should expect anything between now and Friday. The (unarmed) young Alliance supporter was gunned down by a member of Yaya’s Presidential Guard. This has NOTHING to do with the GNA as such. They (the Presidential Guard) were trying to redeem themselves after Yaya and his cohorts were humiliated the day before and had to be extricated from the thousands of supporters of the Alliance, thanks to Ousainou Darboe who called in the IEC. I now believe the story that was floating immediately after the Monday incident that Yaya ordered the security officers in his entourage to shoot at the Alliance supporters, but instead they shot in the air. YAYA WAS NOT PLEASED WITH THAT ACTION. So yesterday, he came again, this time with different men from the Presidential Guard who did what he wanted done on Monday. Now I am convinced that the provocation by the APRC was designed to send a 'message' to the Gambians that will scare them. Well, we have news for Yaya and his band of bandits that have brought shame and disrepute to our beautiful country: ‘Gambians have gone past the point of being scared of guns. IT IS EITHER FREEDOM OR DEATH.’ Gambians saw what happened in Ivory Coast and in Ghana. The APRC provoked what transpired yesterday at Tallining. These people wanted to hold 5 different rallies within the area just to confront the Alliance. As God would have it, one of the International observers, a British MP, who was interviewed by the BBC saw the dead body of the young supporter of the Alliance. This observer interviewed a security officer who subsequently offered to take him to the APRC officials for their version of the incident when he was suddenly seized by another security officer who whisked him away. The fate of that security officer is presently in doubt. His crime? Offering a foreign observer the opportunity to talk to the other side i.e. the Government side. They know why they didn't want to talk to the British MP. They have killed an innocent young Gambian who was out to exercise his democratic right by supporting the candidate of his choice. As I write, there are reports that another young lady has been fatally wounded also but I have not been able to confirm this. On other issues of great importance to the elections, Gabriel Roberts has buckled under pressure from the Opposition, ordinary Gambians, the International Observers, etc. Gabriel Roberts has announced that ONLY THOSE VOTERS WITH VOTING CARDS AND ARE ON THE REGISTERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE. By this decision alone, thousands of non-Gambians, folks from the Cassamance and Guinea-Bissau have been denied access to the voting booth. The Opposition agents (Alliance, NRP, PDOIS, NCP) have been instructed to deny this category of APRC 'supporters' the right to vote. The word is VIGILANCE. We will also hold Roberts to his re-stating the LAW and his word from here to eternity. YAYA CANNOT CHANGE THE LAW NOW, NEITHER CAN THE IEC CHAIRMAN. I wish to relay to every peace loving person on the G_L and indeed everywhere, the assurance I got from the ground that the elections will proceed as planned. The APRC will try everything in the book to cause trouble but the election will proceed and that the Alliance WILL WIN, HANDS DOWN in Round One. Yaya knows it, Yankuba knows it, Famara Jatta knows it and the most fanatical supporter of Yaya on G_L knows it i.e. Tombong. As for Ousman Bojang, his problem is that he such a moron that he CANNOT distinguish a fictitious information from the Gambia if he sees one - he calls it the other side of the story from Gambia when in actual fact the story is coming from his buddies in Taiwan. If you ask me, it is regrettable that the APRC MP escaped with his life. This man should have been given a dose of their own medicine. It is tit-for-tat - FULL STOP. We keep telling the APRC that 2001 elections are entirely different from the 1996 elections. We are ready to die for FREEDOM. WE ARE NOT SCARED OF GUNS AND THE ARMY WILL STAY AWAY IN 2001. Darboe is relaxed, receiving well wishers, and ready to assume his responsibility as President of THE FREE REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA. No third Republic business here. A complete break from the past, start anew, under a new, intelligent, tolerant, articulate and educated (To have an educated president and not a high school drop out is extremely important as Gambians came to learn the hard way). Darboe will be the President of ALL Gambians not a president of a select few. KB _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>