Well go cry fro peace elsewhere. As long as everyone knows that you are
peaceloving, your job is done. You may go home now under the rock of
Gibralter while the rest of us actually try to attain peace and justice
which sometimes come with loss of life. I would rather die for a just peace
than of natural causes, complaint and fear.
Such a bonehead.
>From: Aisha Sallah <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: CRYING PEACE!!!!
>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:16:11 GMT
>
>I must say that I have long been monitoring the G-L, until recently when I
>decided to join. I regret to say that since the G-L started up to this day
>today, all the message I have been getting from here is, if I sum it up it
>would be a cry for political- cultural- and tribal unrest in the Gambia. I
>might be wrong but sorry this is what I can summarize from here.
>
>Have we ever stop to think what a hell the Gambia will break into if hell
>breaks loose, isn't July 30 1980 and April 10 2000 enough to teach us
>lessons, must we seek for a third lesson how will that be? Can we predict
>it? Must we become victims of our very selves? How long do we think it
>would
>take us to build up again or do we maybe believe that the others will come
>to our aid and make a marshal plan for us? So long I have only seen this
>happen in Europe. Worst cases are still going on in Africa never has any
>member of the UN come to aide the suffering all the sympathy we get is poor
>africa again lets give them some secondhand things and some crack wheat
>that's enough for them they aren't worth better.
>Let me just quote a message from a Congolese(Zaire) whom I met and what he
>said did really touch my heart. This is what he said "I became refugee from
>the time Mobutu gain power, when Mobutu died I taught I could walk back
>home
>but before I was able to grab my things to head home, hell fire broke out
>again in Congo. Now I'm 65 years old, I spent all my precious time in
>Europe, when will I enjoy africa?"
>
>What I'm trying to say is that the democracy that we are looking for does
>not exist anywhere in this world but we can build our democracy by being
>there investing, contributing and educating the people rather than shouting
>from the far east for the people to take up democracy in a violent way.
>
>Pardon me if anyone feels insulted by my little contribution here, I did
>not
>mean to, I'm just crying for peace.
>
>/Aisha
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