Forum Members, Here is a copy of the mail i sent to State House. Mrs. Joiner, kindly forward all incoming mails to The President in memory of our fallen young ones! Mr. President, Two years today, 12 young lives were extinguished when they reacted to Justice denied in the case of their brother and mate(Ebrima Barry), and an alleged rape incident of another school girl! Elections have been campaigned for and won and the temperature of the conflict appears to be cool. Yet, to the parents and families who lost their loved ones, it is a life of grief, pain, and the knowledge that Justice was never done in the first place to ease their loss! No acknowledgement of ill-deed, no spoken words of consolation! Mr. President that was one negative response to a crisis situation! Mr. President, the sanctity of life cannot be compromised for the building of roads and schools! You build us hospitals then turn around and fill the mortuary with the bodies of our young and delicate; our torch bearers. One step forward, and ten backward. Where are we going??? Where is the spirit of the young high school student who will be waiting at Yellitenda ferry crossing(Trans-Gambia)to receive a bundle of 'The Organ of The Revolutionary Students' to be distributed clandestinely in schools because he believed in a cause; the cause of surpressed students, but in a bigger picture: the cause of our poor people? The guy who would walk with his friends from Gambia High School along the beach side down town Albert Market agitating for the right of students? Where is the young man who once mobilized a couple of friends with the motive to storm the High Court in Banjul and release Koro Sallah, Fakeba Juwara and co when they were charged with treason??? Where Are You??? And until that day you are brave enough to face us, the people, and make a true confession in giving those lethal orders, ask for forgiveness, and show genuine remorse; until that day Justice in its true sense is carried out, your conscience will be saddled with the corpses of these young lives damaged by your gunfire and you are denuded of all self-respect! Please remember!: "the longer you put something off, the worse it will become, the harder it will be to do what you need to do, say what you need to say." Now you are a father; a parent, I trust you will do the right thing! And very soon too! Lamin Sanyang. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~