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Brother Abdu,
Some of the online Gambians papers, supported by brave Gambians on the ground
are doing a tremendous job of continuing to expose the regime of Yaya
Jammeh, which in turn lends credibility as well as a wider audience to our voices.
The atrocities we have lamented on the various Gambian online lists over the
years have now been echoed by the Gambian online papers, other journalists
in the sub-region and around the World and human rights organizations and so
the snowball effect of our list discussions continues to reverberate and that
was one of the results some of us had hoped for when we took to the net to
expose the
atrocities of the regime. In addition, the regime themselves, and Jammeh in
particular have done quite a bit lately and continue to confirm what we have
been trying to tell the World for a long time.
Unfortunately, respect for the rule of law which can be a valuable tool in
bringing certain types of pressure to bearwhen fighting oppression, tyranny
and injustice is non-existent in Jammeh's Gambia because he is judge, jury
and executioner and those who dispense the law dispense it as he dictates.
All of these things happening on the outside can only go towards augmenting
change on the ground if
there are people on the ground who will pick up the baton and run with it.
Unfortunately, we lost a golden opportunity during the last general elections
in The Gambia.
Silence does not by any means mean acquiescence in this case. Personally, my
position is that we can
continue to talk but it is now time to find ways to turn the talking into
action. What that action will be and what results it will yield depends on our
collective ability to do away with the amazing lack of trust that exists
between us and which seems to be growing, as well as our pre-occupation with
self that seems to stand in the way of progress in everything we undertake.
Jabou Joh
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