Habib, Your question is blunt but certainly not stupid. All options should be considered given what is at stake. However, I may hasten to add that in my humble opinion, the country should not be divided along ethnic/religious lines. Ivoirians have lived together under Houphouet and I see no reason why they cannot do the same under Gbagbo or any other leader. The problem facing CI is generally percieved as exclusionary politics both from the standpoint of religion and ethnicity. Even the French Ambassador had to openly critise the Government and local media for being xenophobic and advise Ivoirians to abandone the politics of exclusion. Watching local TV sends chills down ones spine especially to those familiar with the role local media plaid in the genocide in Rwanda. Inciting the population to rise up and wipe out the 2m odd Burkinabe - many of whom are Ivoirians - on national TV is a recipe for genocide. To its credit, the Governement later disassociated itself from the call made by a TV announcer. Sidi Sanneh ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Habib Ghanim" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [>-<] PST: 3 000 flee Liberia fighting Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:06:50 +0000 _________________________________________________________________ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~