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Sisters and brothers, sexual abuse is a serious crime (either boys or girls). It is so demeaning that even a heterosexual rape has life long scares on the victims how much more from male to male homosexuals , something alien to us back home. It is so sick and disgusting that it must not be tolerated at all no matter who is in charge. As a parent , I will not wait for any government to protect my child . I will do everything in my power legally to defend my children . My advise to every one of us on this forum to alert our beloved families back home now by phone or mail to prevent and watch out for such trends as described in this article. They must stop their kids from becoming victims now by educating them of the dangers directly before they do so in the streets or beaches. informal & local mass education on a grass roots level should begin for this purpose only. I am going to call my family and warn them first thing in the morning. I wish brothers like baba galleh will have someone publish this article back home to share this with those who are not aware. Yes May God save us from being like the cities Sodom and Gomoro. good night habib |
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>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Fw: Child sex tourists/ Habib >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:32:01 EST > >Habib, > >That is the scary thing indeed, that these kids have no one to make sure that >they are protected from this sort of thing. Even here in the U.S, with all >the competent law enforcement, laws and other safeguards in place from the >community etc, it is still tough to battle this scrouge, so our kids are >definitely in danger. There is this problem and along with it, there are also the side >effects such as sexually transmitted diseases that this activity can spread >among the youth who are supposed to be our future. >The public in Africa are fair game for all sorts of things simply because our >governments are focused on other things, and the last thing on their agenda >are the people and their welfare, and this is just an example to highlight >that. The rulers are too busy amassing wealth and trying to forge ways to hold on >to power and the politicians who are hoping to be in power are too busy >trying to device ways to replace them so they can also carry on along the same >lines. All of them are too busy to remember that they are supposed to be there to >serve the interest of all the citizens alike. The sad result is rampant >poverty that gets worse with time and desperation leads people to engage in >behaviour that is contrary to our culture and which is destroying our respectives >peoples. >Knowing Gambian society and the values we have always held dear, it is indeed >shocking to read that such things are happening in our country, and people >are treating it as just business as usual. >Yes, May Allah help us. > >Jabou Joh > >In a message dated 3/24/04 10:24:56 AM Central Standard Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > > > > sister Jabou and Kabir > > > > I expected some of this sort of crime with tourism but NOT to this extent. I > > am SHOCKED and utterly taken aback by this report. It is is so incredible > > that I had a dizzy headache after i read it. > > > > I equate this issue to the viruses that hit our computers daily. We have > > firewalls and anti virus programs to protect us but these Kids in Banjul don't > > have anything whatsover and that is the scary part > > > > Oh God !!have mercy and protect us from such evil people. > > > > Regards > > > > habib > > > > > > > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >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 > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~