We join the entire Gambian Nation today in offering our prayers in rememberance of the cold-blooded murder of Gambian pupils and other lives destroyed by Gambian armed forces on the specific orders of Gambian President Yaya Jammeh, on April 10th/11th 2000.

Ten years today, a large number of Gambian students took to the streets across the nation to demonstrate against the reckless neglect of the economy, including cascading decadence of quality education and the persistent violent repression of fundamental human rights in the country. This demonstration by thousands of Gambian students was in the exercise of the right spefically granted under Gambian Constitution. The gallant student heroes conducted themselves in legendary peaceful manner unprecedented in our national history. They left their parents and families determined to protect their future and that of the country they so loved beyond imagination; determined to show the world that they were prepared to assume the noble steps required for The Gamba's future leadership. Alas, many of them never returned home, but were cruelly sent to early graves as their bullet ridden battered & lifeless bodies sprinkled wailing streets with their young blood gushing like torrential streams. A Coroners Inquest officially commissioned by President Jammeh himself held the armed forces and Government 100% liable for this heinous crime.

President Jammeh furiously reacted by disbanding the Inquest, dismissed its Secretary, Master of the High Court Ousman Jammeh from government service, and rushed an impunity Bill through Parliament (Indemnity Act) to legislatively erase the unpardonable sins of all those who to this day have been responsible for the cold blooded murder and maiming of Gambia students. Justice Minister at the time Mr. Pape Cheyassin Secka angrily told Parliment categorically and  in a forceful speech that Government rejected the findings of the Inquest and dismissed its recommendations outright. Gambian Vice President, a mother herself, stunned the Nation blaming the assassinated children for murdering themselves. Ablanket curtain of impunity further ripped the soft heart of a Nation voraciously and continues to this second.

I assure all Gambians and human rights activists that every one who participated in this great national tragedy shall be held individually accountable, no matter how long it takes. The sword of justice shall catch up with each of you, and I promise each of you that there shall be no comfort or hiding place for you in any part of the world. I assure our compatriots that this is a task which is irreversibly in motion and that the ubiquitous dragnet of ational and international justice shall fish all of out when you least expect it.  

MAI N.K FATTY, Esq
April 10th 2010