Sister, What was the Tep or the Bloodp.?dont take such so seriouly,the Gambia is too small. For Freedom Saiks >===== Original Message From The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> ===== >In a message dated 8/4/02 8:41:40 PM Central Daylight Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > > >> As a matter of fact the majority of the Gambia-l members are now APRC >> supporters. > >Tombong. > >Please post a list of the majority of G-L members that are now members of the >APRC. >This is utter nonsense, and yes, those who join do so out for survivial >reasons because even the civil servants who are not members get preyed upon. >It is a matter of coercion for the helpless, but for those who know the truth >and still choose to join this murderous regime, they do so to feed their own >greed. >You and the others keep talking about these sturctural improvements and the >hospitals and schools. Well, these are good, but they are part of what a >government does with the people's money. It is just that in Africa our >leaders tend to sprend the dough on themselves so that if they direct it >where it belongs sometimes, they then present this as major accomplishments. > >In the case of Yaya Jammeh, the hospitals and the schools are empty, and even >his wife flies to Washington for a routine pediatric visit for her child, so >what is the point? >Surely she should be able to partake of the wonderful improvements in our >medical care to stay home these visits. >These empty structures you and others constantly point at goes to prove the >poor planning skills of the APRC government because some of the resources to >erect these structures should have gone to improving the existing schools and >hospitals and equiping them, with perhaps additions of a few new ones. > >However, for the APRC regime, the emphasis is on visual effects, i.e, as many >new structures as possible so they can be pointed at for the gullible to be >impressed. >Structural improvements are not the only issue in the development of a >country. Even as you and other s continue to try to sell this garbage about >the APRC, there are more and more decrees designed to by-pass our >constitution, and journalists are being detained by the NIA for printing a >story that the VP got married for heavens sake among other stupid reasons? >Paranoia is the order of the day, and people who are confident in what the >yare doing and who know that they are competent and are serving the people >well do not display this kind of paranoia, nor do they employ devious >tactics to divide the people. >Here si a fact that everyone with a brain cannot miss. HUMAN RIGHTS >VIOLATIONS ARE WORSENING BY THE DAY IN GAMBIA, WHILE WE HAVE MORE NEW >STRUCTURES? WE WANT IMPROVEMENTS ON BOT HFRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE >COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED >MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE TO STOP. >WE WATN OUR CONSTUTUTIONAL RIGHTS NOT TO BE ABBROGATED AND DONE AWAY WITH BY >THE APRC REGIME. THEN WE WILL AGREE THERE IS REAL AND TRUE PROGRESS > >We have the structures while people are starving in The Gambia, farmers who >depend solely on their crops being unable to sell those crops for years now. >Civil servants are being fired illegally daily, and even the Judiciary is >under the grips of the APRC. The saddest part of it is that people like you >who know the truth are still trying to sell this garbage to us. >Perhaps we over-estimate the APRC and assume that when we complain about the >human rights violations, they are intelligent enough to understand that we >are trying to tell them that the improvements have to be in all areas, not >just the structural improvements. That we want the murders solved and the >human rights violations stopped.Tombong, how do you and the rest of the APRC >gang explain the human rights violations that continue even today? Will you >tell us that the Gambian people deserve that and that we are to substitute >our freedoms for structures? > >PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TACTIC OF STATING THAT MANY HAVE JOINED THE APRC >BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER DEVIOUS TACTIC EMPLOYED BY THESE THUGS. > >Those of us who used to write amost daily about this regime but do less of >that now realize that these are not people to reason with simply because they >were not motivated by high ideals to serve their country, but were and are >motivated by what they can do for themselves in the guise of serving their >country. > >However, rest assured that this does not mean that we will ever compromise >our principles and join those whom history will not laud as the best amongst >us, but rather those amonsgst us who will always choose their own interest >over the truth, and there is nothing honourable or even sensible in that, >,and time will prove this. Rest assured that not writing about this regime >daily translates to selling our souls and joining the devil or that we have >given up exposing this regime for what they are. > >To the statement about silent members of the APRC, I say, if someone joins >a political party and feels a need to hide that fact, then something is >wrong, ,and if it was my party, I would not want such membership unless if I >was desperate for members or simply engaged in a false campaign to sell the >nonsense that people are joining the APRC by the drones. To anyone who joinss >he APRC, I feel a deep sense of sadness not just because of the character >trait it unfolds, but also because the yhave that day given up their self >respect and their ability ot hold their head high in our society in the long >run. > >Why? Because joining the APRC is not just exercising the constitutional right >to join a party which would have been fine if the party was not one with the >record of the APRC. Joining the APRC is signing on to be identified with the >present regime who have the blood of Gambians on their hands and are >flaunting this fact before us daily by refusing to investigate these criminal >acts, ,and who also violate our rights daily and have turned our country into >a police state. Who have incarcerated Gambians without any charges they can >prove and who refuse to let these people have their rights under our >constitution., and who engage in silencing anyone who dares to complain about >these illegal acts they are engaged in. Who have tured our country into a >place where even members of the judiciary cannot make rulings in a case >according to the law without being harassed or terminated from their >positions. Man, I would say anarchy has come to be the rule of the day in The > Gambia, and yet, Tombong Saidy and company come daily to tell us we shoudl >be dancing the jig because the government of Yaya Jammeh has built some >structures while they continue to also built an ever worsening police state? > >THIS ALLEGATION OF PEOPLE JOINING THE APRC IS JUST ANOTHER TACTIC OF DIVIDE >AND CONQUER. TOMBONG AND HIS LIKES WHO MAKE THESE STATEMENTS HAVE AN AGENDA >TO PLANT DISTRUST AND CHAOS EVEN AS THEY APPEAR TO BE PEACE MAKERS AND JUST >ANOTHER WELL MEANING MEMBER OF THE LISTS. > >Tombong, produce your list of APRC members or cease and desist from your >devious tactics. > >Jabou Joh > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >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] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~