Good question. I have been wondering why UDP especially has not come out with any statements to condemn the illegal detention of Waa Juwara, or is ti just that such a statement sis not make it to G-L? Jabou Joh In a message dated 10/16/03 5:00:44 PM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:> > > Folks, I came a crossed with lots of condemnation from our other oppositions > leaders in the Gambia, mostly all, except Lawyer Ousainu Daroe and Amat bah > for the illigal detention of Lamin waa Juwara. Why are they silence, > especially Juwara's former party UDP. Is it because he felt out with them > and formed his own party? I do remember Juwara condemning Lawyer Darboe's > detention some months ago. > > Why the silence our great political leaders? Have you all been scared > already to get in to jail for demonstrating your constitutional right ? If > you want to lead the people, you most prepared to face the hard line. Do not > expect us to do it for you all the way to the statehouse. > > Even though, Juwara and most of you are not sharing the same political > principles at the moment. What is important for you as leaders is, unify all > your parties and condemn such act in a strongly terms without any > reservation of being scare to be send to jail. > > Get your ranks together to salvage our country from the APRC regime, our > party political differences shouldn't make us silence on things that really > matters, especial when it deals with the breach of human right. > > Arresting opposition leaders will be a continuation for the APRC regime, > today is Waa Juwara , tomorrow might be NRP Amat Bah, day after might be UDP > Lawyer Ousainu Darboe, Halifa Sallah, Sidia Jatta or Omar Jallow. So our > leaders, forget about your differences and forge your hands together for a > more hard task awaiting you in the coming months and years. > > Forward ever backward never > > Conteh Julla > > _________________________________________________________________ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~