Mboge:
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From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:26:29
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Subject: Re: The shameful arrest and detention of Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou Touray. Standing in solidarity in the struggle for Good over Evil.
Nyang,
thank you for your support and concern.
Mboge
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Modou Nyang <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Brother Mboge, I am with you all the way and demand that these two
> distinguished women be freed to continue their activities unhindered.
>
> Nyang
>
> --- On *Tue, 10/12/10, Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>* wrote:
>
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> From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: The shameful arrest and detention of Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr
> Isatou Touray. Standing in solidarity in the struggle for Good over Evil.
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 8:12 PM
>
>
>
> *The shameful arrest and detention of Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou
> Touray. Standing in solidarity in the struggle for Good over Evil. *
>
> Few months ago, I was profoundly dismayed by an essay penned by Rtd Colonel
> Samsudeen Sarr published on the online news outlet- *The Gambiaecho*captioned “A Quest for
> *SABARRY*”. What I gathered then from Sarr was that Gambians should just
> accept the abuses and excesses of the Mad Buffoon Mr Yahya Jammeh and beg
> for *mercy *in order that peace will prevail.
>
> I asked then for utter and complete rejection of such a call. I instead
> urged for the amplification of the fight against the *Tyranny and
> Terrorism of the Buffoon Yahya Jammeh.* Today I reiterate this call with
> extra amplified volume due to the harassment of the GAMCOTRAP Executive
> Director and Programme Coordinator. I am angered by the arrest and
> charging of Amie Bojang-Sissoho whom I happen to share the same mother and
> Dr Isatou Touray. I believe this action by the criminal regime is to
> silence these formidable human beings and to tarnish their integrity*. I
> am in solidarity with these ladies just as I have been with others who were
> incarcerated for some hidden motives known only to their accusers. * Of
> course it hurts when you are told that your sister is being persecuted based
> on fictitious charges.
>
> I put it on that occasion to Sarr that dictators must be confronted with
> resistance not smooching and begging them for their bountiful mercy. For
> those who profess to be Muslims, confronting dictators and wicked rulers is
> required of all believers to uphold the “ Qur’anic vision of individual
> dignity, personal liberty and freedom from arbitrary coercion” (Sachedina
> 2009). Demanding ones human rights to live a dignified and honourable
> life is a legitimate struggle against evil as aptly put by Christof Heyns in
> his thesis: *A “Struggle Approach” to Human Rights *(2001).
>
> Hyens writes that “Human rights are not about asking favours and they are
> not merely moral or rhetorical concepts; they are guides to action and
> triggers of resistance against what is perceived as the illegitimate use of
> power, in particular state power” (2001, 171). It is no brainer to charge
> that the abuse of state power has been given new meaning and taken to new
> heights under the dastard regime of Yahya Jammeh. What obtains in the
> Gambia is maddeningly disturbing and should worry every citizen and friend.
>
>
> Thus I call upon my family as I urged the families’ of the six
> journalists never to succumb to the terror of a dictator by asking for
> mercy. Doing so will only enhance and prolong the suffering of you and
> your community as a whole. It is also against what God, the Almighty ask
> of his followers. In all religions it is imperative for followers to
> resist any authority that oppresses the Creator’s children. Dissenting
> and resisting such authority is a Godly and noble endeavor.
>
> I further call on to my family both immediate and extended not to despair.
> What these ladies are being forced to go through is by any measure
> disgusting and despicable. All must condemn it. Notwithstanding, I hope
> and pray whatever condition my sister Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou
> Touray faces in those confined and horrible prison walls of Mile 2, that it
> will reinvigorate their faith in Allah and inspire their convictions to
> pursue with greater determination and zeal, the good job they have been
> doing for more than two decades.
>
> Amie and Dr Touray should be rest assured that their plight in as much as
> it is trying, painful, hard is a test to their resolve and belief in the
> Almighty. I hope they are inspired by the great people who were
> incarcerated by oppressors to break them but never succumbed to such
> cowardly tyrannies.
>
> Amie Bojang-Sissoho remember you are the child of a great scholar and
> forthright human being, Alagi Hatab Bojang (May his Soul Rest in Peace). Your
> dad was also harassed by the former regime but they miserably failed to
> break his convictions. Your mother Olimata Sarr (R.I.P) was a fighter to
> the end. She never tolerated bullies or accepted any who tried to usurp
> her human dignity.
>
> I had to write this for my own sanity. I know many in my family are
> scared to death at this very moment evidenced by the several calls trying to
> preempt me not to write anything which may anger the regime or jeopardize
> Amie’s situation. Well, I am sorry, I believe it doesn’t matter what I
> write against the criminal Yahya Jammeh and his cabal, because being a sick
> and cowardly dictator this buffoon is devoid of conscience or feeling for
> any he feels threatens his delusions of grandeur.
>
> The late Dr Lenrie Peters admonished *“that Gambians must wake up from
> their slumber and reassess the realities of their situation; that their
> consciences shall demand ‘no crimes with impunity’ until this spreading
> epidemic of violence and savagery is flayed from our midst. […] Gambians
> must never allow this monstrous anarchy of evil to bestride the landscape.”
> *
>
> I apologise to my family but I am convinced that my conscience is clear
> in demanding the flaying of the ‘epidemic of violence and savagery’ which is
> already residing in the Gambian landscape.
>
> Keep strong my beloved sister Amie Bojang-Sissoho and Dr Isatou Touray. All
> peace loving and God-fearing Gambians are proud of you. You are great
> citizens worthy of emulation. You manifest goodness whilst Mr Yahya
> Jammeh is evil reincarnate.
>
> Truth shall prevail. Gambians shall overcome the present evil.
>
> References:
>
> 1. Heyns, C. (2001), ‘A “Struggle Approach” to Human Rights’. In
> Soeteman, A. (ed.) *Pluralism and Law. * Dordrecht, Boston, London:
> Kluwer Academic Publishers.
> 2. Sachedina, Abdulaziz (2009) *Islam and the Challenge of Human
> Rights.* Oxford University Press. [Chapter 5: “Individual and
> Society: Claims and Responsibilities”]
>
>
> *Momodou Olly Mboge *
> *Oslo, Norway *
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