Hamjatta/Karamba, you have analyzed the situation really well and I thank
you for your suggestions to political parties in The Gambia. The situation
is deteriorating by the day. And we have no one to blame for that but Yaya
and his supporters. These people are not interested in peace and democracy.
In what democracy would you have such an inflammatory letter as the one
Sankung wrote to Darboe? To make matters worst, there were reports in
Gambian newspapers that APRC supporters went to a parade with Yaya and held
banners chanting that there should be no elections for Yaya. What does this
mean? Ousainou Darboe was trying to paint a favorable picture about those
statements by saying that maybe Yaya supporters just meant that they want
another presidential candidate. As you can see, this is a very optimistic
interpretation (to say the least). The more logical and alarming conclusion
is that these Yaya supporters do not even want an election. They want to
ordain Yaya as president for life. These vermin know that their candidate
would lose in any fairly contested elections. What do they do? They try to
make sure that there is no elections. So do not just discard Karamba's
assertions that these people want a legalized dictatorship in The Gambia by
creating chaos in the country and then declaring a state of emergency. If
they fail in that endeavor, they will try to rig the elections. We must not
allow them to do that. Hamjatta, together with your brilliant suggestions, I
would also add that this time around, opposition parties should not be lured
into participating in a bogus elections. If the deck is stacked against
them, they should boycott the elections. That is of course if we have
elections. My sense is, the Gambian people will get rid of Yaya before the
next elections. Am very confident about that. We will prevail. Just check
the people that have ran away from G_L since the massacre. Who are the
people that cannot stand the heat and left the kitchen? Who are the people
that threatened to join us on G_L and never showed up? Who are the people
that lurk in the dungeons of G_L looking for critical postings but do not
have the guts to come into the open and argue their positions? These are
signs of people that recognize their impending and inevitable demise and are
now engaged in damage control. G_L is a very small but significant example.
These cowards will run away from us anywhere we meet them. That is their
nature. We will expose their cowardice one final time, very soon. Let us all
just resolve that each time we engage them, they will be the first to blink.
KB
>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: The Alternative
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:59:43 GMT
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>Karamba,
>You are spot on. It is time we realise we are dealing with something that
>doesn't understand the language of reason and decency. And that whilst in
>the past the dictator unleashes terror by stealth, now he unasbashedly goes
>about it in broad-daylight without any dint of remorse.
>It is about time we ask ourselves the extent we will take it from him lying
>down? How much longer can conscientious, peace loving and law-abiding
>citizenry accept the immoral authority of an immoral regime whose intense
>paroxsym of brutality has now reached fever pitch? How much longer would we
>seek to a peace-ful end to the current political stalemate only to be
>slapped hard on the face?
>Government is a social contract between the governed and governors. When
>the
>governed become mere appendages to be used and abused, then we must ask
>ourselves is it not about time to morally, politically and by any other
>means necessary to challenge this ill-gotten and immoral authority to free
>ourselves of its bondage? This is such time when assaulting the central
>authority of gov't is prudent and moral.
>To set the ball rolling, i have in mind Mr Darbo and the rest of the
>opposition leadership to openly call for civil disobedience through
>sit-ins,
>refusal to pay taxes and whatever is conceivably going to weaken the
>central
>authority of this immoral government should they be refused a permit to
>hold
>meetings. If i rightly recall, Mr Darbo did intimate such views in a
>newspaper interview sometime ago. He should now take the initiative to its
>next logical progression. If he is refused a permit to hold meetings, then
>he should call on all peace loving, law-abiding and conscientious Gambians
>to refuse paying taxes, refuse obeying central gov't directives and
>anything
>that can conceivably weaken Jammeh's immoral authority. Mr Darbo must make
>this declaration by stating that he will be the first to disobey this
>immoral regime by refusing to pay a dime to its coffers and even disobey
>its
>orders not to hold meetings.
>The underlying principle should be no more softie approaches to what calls
>for a hardened stance. The Basse incident, if anything, has taught us a
>fundamental moral truth about Jammeh and his thugs: that when pull comes to
>push, they are just cowards parading bravery.
>This immoral and illegal regime needs to be challenged NOW! JAMMEH MUST BE
>TOLD IN NO UNCOMPROMISING LANGUAGE THAT WE ARE ALSO GAMBIANS!
>Hamjatta Kanteh
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