Glad that you stand by the truth and condemned this barbaric act metted out to mr Mbye by the state agencies under the auspices of the head of state. The president of the Gambia is the
only one codoning these acts. The NIA has the presidents blessing and they blindly refuse to
understand that torturing innocent journalists could only aggrevate matters.What is wrong in the Gambia today is the equivalent of the Nazi Germany gestapo, police state headed by an
arrogant dictator who does not know how to run the matters of the nation without using some instrument of force. Yahya and his secret agents must understand that to win the hearts and minds of the Gambian people, they need to treat them with respect, dignity, justice and the rule of law. The Gambian people will not accept or succum to injustice. Fair play on a level field.
May God bless us all.
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>Subject: Justifying The torture of Alhagi Mbye!
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 15:06:25 -0500
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>Justifying wrongs being perpetuated by the Gambia Government is
>one of our problems as Gambians. The least one can do is speak
>out against injustice. Evil prevails only when good men and women
>stand idly by. If those journalists were singing Jammehs praises,
>they will not labeled "uncouth" in Gassama's book. Besides all
>that, instead of the NIA taking the laws into their own hands,
>dont we have "courts"? Is intimidating journalists by torturing
>them the right way out?
>
>People do not care what happens to folks they have no interest
>in or are not related to. The pain never registers until it
>hits close to home. There is nothing in what the gentle man
>wrote in his article that warranted the torture metted out to
>him.
>
> For people like Pa Modou Gassama, I am not the least
>surprised by his stance. If one of your family members was at
>the receiving end of torture, you shall be singing a different
>song. As inconsciousnable as you are, if Alhagi Mbye was your
>blood, sycophancy will not have blinded you from the truth.
>Always remember though that, what goes around comes around. No
>condition is permanent and the APRC will not rule The Gambia
>forever. Try speaking the truth, for that alone is everlasting.
>There is no justification whatsoever for torturing your fellow
>human beings. But if one is not human, they can never see this.
>
>Alagie Barrow
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>Nashville TN
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