Hear! Hear! You've put it well, Ousman. >From: Ousman Bojang <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Jawara Speaks (part 1) >Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 19:31:57 EST > >Amadou and Musa, >Thanks to all of you and some of those who had tried to report Jawara's >talks >on this forum. Already a few people had mentioned everything that need to >be >mentioned. >However, reading between the lines for what the former president had to say >and the reply he gave to Malafy Jarju on his question about returning to >power just stunned me. I thought the guy was doing all of these to work >forward to apologizing to the Gambia as Saul Saidykhan pointed out. It has >to >be clear to Jammeh and all those former ministers following him that yes >the >Gambians might be disgust with the Jammeh regime, but if they think that >they >have unfinished business after 30 years of corrupt and the same HUMAN RIGHT >abuses Jammeh just happen to be better at, I think they are dreaming. >Because of all the discussions at the moment going on the L- for a >reconciliation's, I was refraining myself from joining this discussion >until >I read what he replied to Mr. Jarju's question. I would have loved to ask >Jawara if he remembered imprisoning his oppositions for years and denying >them the due process of the court just as Jammeh is doing. And my second >question to him was going to be how he would have felt if he was caught by >the junta and imprisoned for years denying his family visitation rights? >Being a direct victim of that and kidnapping a school boy in the name of >national security during his era is not worse(t) than what Jammeh might be >doing. >I certainly take it just as Musa Jeng pointed out, "He just did not get >it." >The guy need to rake a rest and take the advise from Saul to try to write a >memoire so that we could all learn from the mistakes he did. > >Ousman Bojang. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------