KB,

This indeed is disturbing news. You are also right that we have a ticking
time bomb on our hands.

This cuban Dr Sam is a total disgrace to the profession of Pathology. He is
a man, who claims to have been in the business of pathology for nearly two
decades, concluding that a poor innocent boy, tortured to death by fire
service men of Brikama, actually died of natural causes. How can a
professional stoop so low. All to save the skin of a faailing government. To
make matters worse, Dr Sam expressed surprise at the fact that Barry's
disease was not diagnosed earlier. At least, he was healthy until his
encounter with the fire peolple. So you do not have to be a Harvard Law
Professor to see that a crime has been committed. So one way or the other
the Jammeh government is solely responsible for Barry's and 11 other
student's death.

In the early days of the Barry case, the Daily Obserever, quoted
unidentified sources, that claimed that the pathologist found that Barry
died of natural causes. Th police spokesman was emphatic in brushig aside
the report as utter nonsense. He ridiculed the paper and the reporter.
Government claimed that the pathologist was out of town and he had not
completed the report. That Observer report was one of the cause of April 10
incidents. Now six months later, the same government made a u-turn and
stated that Barry died of natural causes. Atale of lies and deceptions.
Makes you sick.

For Dr Sam, if you are not prepared to tell the truth, pack your belongings
and go back to your country or to some carribean island, to enjoy your ill
gotten wealth. The wealth of honest and straight living Gambians.

Gambians are cleverer than you think. Your report is an insult to the
intellligence of Gambians.

Saul Jobarteh
seattle,wa.


>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Ebrima Barry murder etc.
>Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:50:56 EDT
>
>News coming from Banjul is quite disturbing. The Ebrima Barry case (that
>sparked the April 10 and 11 massacre) is not going in a way that favors the
>Gambian public. There is still no justice for the victims of the April
>massacre. Lalo, Dumo and others are still held incommunicado. Ordinary
>citizens get abducted by Yaya's security officials, get tortured and get
>the
>lives of their lawyers threatened. We have not heard anything about the
>investigations of the Radio One arson and attempted murder attack. The
>November elections are still in limbo. The catalog of problems go on and
>on.
>I was always suspicious of the prosecutor the AG choose to try the Ebrima
>Barry case. I queried months ago when this man would not show up in court
>the first day of the case. We saw how few days ago the man called a witness
>(Dr. Sam) that ended up sabotaging his case. Now the latest news is that
>the
>defense want the case to be thrown out of court without even having to put
>out a single witness. The parents of Ebrima Barry were hoist to court and
>called all sorts of names and labeled as liars. This is pitiful. Now the
>poor parents are the culprits and the firemen that murdered their son are
>now being hailed as heroes for helping to get Ebrima Barry back to school.
>This is really disgusting. Ebrima Barry is dead and the firemen are
>boasting
>about the revocation of Barry's suspension from school. Yes, Barry is not
>suspended from going to school, all right! That's because he is dead. I
>knew
>these people were stupid, but frankly I did not think the level of their
>stupidity would come to this. The simple question to the authorities is:
>why
>go through all this in order to protect the firemen that murdered Ebrima
>Barry? The ineptitude of the government in their handling of this matter
>caused over a dozen innocent children to lose their lives on April 10 and
>11. Why repeat the same mistake? I would not even go through the rigmarole
>of showing that the defense lawyer's latest application in the Ebrima Barry
>matter should fail. It is obvious that the defense at least have a case to
>answer. But if the judge in this matter drops the ball and set these
>criminals free, he would be held responsible together with the AG and the
>prosecutor for the repercussions.
>The massacre of April 10 and 11 is still an unsolved mystery in the eyes of
>the coroner and that bogus commission of inquiry. I have not read the
>commission's report, but I know that there is little in that report apart
>from blaming the students for their massacre. How can there be damning
>evidence against the authorities when government officials went to the
>commission and told blatant lies with impunity? Even the chief justice at
>one point rhetorically asked whether the gunmen came from the skies to
>murder our children. I would be shocked if a single person is named as
>having pulled a trigger on April 10 and 11 to murder our children. If such
>a
>person has been named, then logic demands that the AG set the ball rolling
>for the prosecution of that person. It is not Yaya's role to decide who
>should be prosecuted. That is a legal decision that should be made by the
>AG
>and his director of public prosecution. Yaya's only role is to 'study' that
>bogus commission report and see if there need to be certain policy changes
>as a result of the massacre. The changes that need to be implemented by the
>government in light of the April massacre are quite obvious and we do not
>need a commission of inquiry to tell us that. I have been saying this for
>the past five months. There is little or no nexus between the commission
>findings and the prosecution of the criminals responsible for the massacre
>of our children. So Yaya and his AG are taking the whole country for a ride
>asking them to put their fate in the hands of a toothless commission of
>inquiry. This is just incomprehensible. Innocent children are murdered and
>the murderers are roaming the streets scot-free. So long as opposition
>leaders do not step to the plate and defend the rights of the weak in the
>society, nothing will come out of this. This is the worst crime that has
>ever happened in our country. When would enough be enough? When Yaya
>massacres 100 children?
>Coming to the November 'elections', can the politicians please tell us what
>is going on? Am I right in thinking that parliament has adjourned without
>passing the necessary legislation for implementing the elections? Gambia is
>in a pathetic state and the sooner we do something about it, the better.
>KB
>
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