Maodo Malik, Ajaarama Bandam! Sanyang Quoting malik kah <[log in to unmask]> > >I wish to interject in this discour about rights and make some observations >that I hope would help further this debate. ...it is false to castigate Jammeh only to excuse >Jawara, >a just person would try to figure out Jawara's wrongs and and abhore in as >much as Jammeh would be. Hence the whole equation with regard to Gambia we >are yet to finde a regime that is dispensing justice. Not wishing to make a >political point but stating a fact, I can recall an in-law of mine called >Baboucarr Langley whose only crime was to make a one man demonstration >hoisting a flag at an Independence parade shouting "the people are tired, >we >want change". He wwas forced to confess that he was mad so that they can >release him he refused and was imprisioned, at the time he had two lovely >twin children only one month old, due to the stress and pain my sister was >going through one of the twin passed out barely another month the other one >followed, so how can anyone in their right frame of mind say this was >justice. The difference between then and now is there is more media >reporting hence nothing goes under the carpet and rightly so. Under Jammeh >all in London can testify to this I was at the centre demonstrating when >the >APRC regime murdered our brothers and sisdters my aqssertion is that we >must >cease comparing and attack both of them for they are all guilty to the way >they handled Gambian rights. To try to exonerate officers that were >manifestly oppressive or potray them as heroes is an affront to our >intelligence. " _________________________________________________________________ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~