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>CHOGM to suspend Gambia

 > afrol News, 21 November - The Gambia is perhaps few miles away
> from being slapped suspended by the Commonwealth, as the body's
> People Forum has urged the 2007 Commonwealth Heads of
> Governments Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to take place in the
> Ugandan capital Kampala to take the country to task on its poor
> human rights records.
> The forum composed of NGOs involved in the protection of the
> human rights of Commonwealth citizens . Its discussions were
> dominated by the appalling human rights conditions in the West
> African country.
>
> Rights activists wondered why so many atrocities, including the
> executions of more than 50 West African nations, have been
> committed by the despotic regime of Yahya Jammeh, yet none of
> the perpetrators has faced justice.
>
> Delegates have jointly condemned gagging of press freedom in The
> Gambia and Zimbabwe. Yahya Jammeh and Robert Mugabe have been
> "accused of instigators of atrocities perpetrated against
> political opponents and should therefore be held accountable."
>
> The Gambia's Director of TANGO [Association of NGOs] Ousman Yabo
> told the Kampala forum that there is little room for NGOs
> specialising in human rights to operate in the country. He said
> the country should be forced to respect the treaties and
> protocols it has signed.
>
> The Regional Director of Commonwealth African Initiative, Ms.
> Oye Lithur, insisted an investigation into the extra-judicial
> executions in The Gambia. She characterised the country's
> pattern of human rights violation as "deliberate and systematic."
>
> Delegates also scolded Zimbabwe and Pakistan for upholding
> values that contradict human rights culture.
>
> It is not clear whether the Gambian leader will grace the
> Kampala meeting.
>
> Uganda that is hosting CHOGM has also got an axe to grind with
> Uganda Human Rights Commission that claims to have documented
> more than 7,500 complaints of torture, cruel or inhuman
> treatment in the last 10 years.
>
>
>
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