Pa, please try [log in to unmask] Chi Jaama Joe >From: KangKangBa <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Foroyaa's editorial email address! >Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:13:57 -0700 > >Could any one help me with Foroyaa's editorial email address please? > > God Bless! > -Pa > >panderry mbai <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks brother Sidebeh for the powerful piece. Well said. > >Momodou S Sidibeh wrote: Brothers Joe and Moe, > >I am sure you both know you speak for most of us. I do not know whether or >not there was a coup attempt. But indeed, the fact of it is almost >irrelevant to the barrage of abuse the population is still being subjected >to by the powers that be. Unfortunately even the opposition politicians >seem >to acquiesce in the farrago of nonsense spewing from those corrupting >newsies. And there is nothing as saddening! > >Condemning coups, real or imagined, is fashionable these days all over >Africa. From the African Union boss to the last Alkali in town, everyone >must reject and condemn coups, even if only to ward off ghosts of suspicion >of possible complicity that may eventually haunt you. The AU sanction >against coups is indeed an important milestone in African politics. But it >must also be recognised that the outright rejection of coups - which we >should all applaud - nevertheless, provides a field day for tyrants and >frenzied dictators. Since they theoretically fear no coups d'etat, they >quickly start constructing personal republics of fear that they rule and >rule until they die. The AU's checking mechanism provides no counterweight >to the sinister designs of said tyrants and dictators. It ought also to >have >insisted that African Constitutions include limits to presidential terms in >office: probably the best insurance policy against useless military coups; >coups that have ravaged societies all over West Africa. > >So while we understand the quick condemnation of the purported coup from >our >politicians, and while offering no excuses for the alleged plotters; they >could have insisted that term limits to the presidency make for a wiser >national securtiy policy than the president's blood-curdling threats of >setting unforgettable examples! Again! > >Liberation and democracy do not come by special delivery, either from god >or >Yaya. It comes through struggle for basic rights, such as the right to >protest against injustice. But even this fundamental right of all human >communities on earth, our politicians have conceded to Yaya. Not even >Halifa >wants to defend that right! And so the unfailing logic of the evolution of >the Gambian struggle for democracy follows a path as predictable as >clockwork. >A government minister is killed, soldiers disappear, school children are >then massacred, numbers of civilans are killed by soldiers, a lawyer >survives an assasination attempt while a prominent journalist is murdered. >Except for other journalists, no one protests phyiscally in the country. >Violent deaths and disappearances and bloody threats become the regimes >staple diet. Its terror police, euphemistically called the NIA, employs >refined methods of harassment and torture: they pick up people in the cover >of darkness, and dump them into unknown detention centres. When the police >claim no knowledge of these detainees, fear creeps into the psyche of >family >members and friends. A litany of unanswered or answereable question flood >the mind: where is my husband, did they kill him? Is he sleeping well? Is >he >being fed? Rumour mills mushroom as NIA spies and informers multiply. >Suddenly no one knows who is a spy or who is no spy. First it was no >protest. Now it is no anti-Jammeh talk. The circulation of bad news assumes >internet speed. Any tiny sound of gunfire or something send mothers and >sisters nervously running for their kids at schools. > >This is nothing short of a campaign of terror; and terrorism when >orchestrated by a state on a tired and tried population has only one >purpose: to create fear. But why is the state bent on creating a climate of >fear? To cause paralysis. So no one does a thing. And in their fear, people >would wish for peace, a peace that they think possible if they vote for >Jammeh or pray to god; and so we summon another five years of darkness, and >uncertainty and death and sorrow. Another five years of pain for our >beloved >journalists at the Independent. > >Cheers, >sidibeh > >いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html > >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] >いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい > > > >--------------------------------- >Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. 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