TRIBUTE TO OUSMAN KORO CEESAY Whether the dead of Ousman Koro Ceesay(KC)was politically motivated or not is not of only his family.Some of us have spent many years working with KC as political comrades,his mysterious dead leaves us with the assignment to find out the truth ,we might choose to betray this assignment,but some of us have no choice but to take history seriously. KC began his revolutionary activities as a member of the Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA-G),we work together in this movement and became at one time or another close comrades.Time and again we have departed from each other as political comrades , but it always happened on political principles,only to meet again at the next cross road,but this time when we depart from each other on political tactics,even though this time far away from each other,we were never to meet again ,even though we might meet again in principle,when the Gambia we all have been yearning for is finally in place.To the best of my knowledge KC did not request his position within the AFPRC system,it was a political assignment he was carrying out and I believed in this,there are few with KCs class background who were loyal to the revolutionary struggle,if he has personal ambitions,we all knew that he could achieve them on his own without help from any of us.He became loyal to the AFPRC regime,and was convince that he was involved in a revolutionary process,and the Gambia he desired(A Gambia without poverty,with total political and economic freedom,etc) could only come to be through this revolutionary process,such a desire will alway bind us to this comrade,who died as the Finance Minister of the in the reactoinary AFPRC regime,of the country he loved so much. To pay any political tribute to KC,in my opinion ,should be for political consumption.His dead has helped to reaffirm the position of many who still hold on to the believed that there is no short cut to revolution.Revolution is born out of the day to day struggle of the masses for a better life.It is this simple fact that make it possible to critic KC and all those who believed that we are undergoing a revolutionary process under the leadership of the reactionary AFPRC regime.This regime has never had a revolutionary program me,it has even exhausted her revolutionary big talks,the regime has become more reactionary than ever before.Just take the recent attack on the Women Liberation movements,the refusal of the regime to condemn the brutal murder of a revolutionary leader,Ken Saro of MOSOP,the leaders life style etc.This government that is using millions paying parliamentarians who are the most previledge in our society, by nature of their class background,calling it a democratic representation of the People.It is only the ordinary people themselves who can represent themselves and not those intellectual bold -heads who spent great much of their times shouting at each other at the expense of tax payers. Even when we enter history,we will find out that there are enough lessons to learn,the Burkinabi revolution was one of such,it was not born out of the struggle of the masses and thus could not be defended by the Masses,the result been that one of the most sincere revolutionary leader that we have ever known,Thomos Sankara became murdered without any genuine reason,this was not done at the service of imperialism,but they jubilated,since the work was done for them without even their presence.Sankaras insistent that it was circumstances that led them to seize power through a military coup and that this was not the intention of the revolution tells the simple truth that they were aware of the many dangers that were involved.Sankara knew of the fact that grounding the revolution with the masses is the only way to defend the revolution,even though he believed that this could not be done without the party,he had a point in that REVOLUTION is the creation of struggling people. When Murish Bishop was released by the Masses from the detention of his comrades and he saw them firing at the Masses he shouted ,oh my God they have turn their guns against the masses,here too we learn a lesson that revolution can never be en-route. Nearer home is the lesson of Liberia,When Smauel Doe and his military thugs came to power,MOJA-Liberia,among others surrender their whole organization to these bulls-hitters,instead of insisting on the revolution.At the end many of them became murdered,forced into exile etc and today MOJA-Liberia is no force to count on in the political crisis of the country.This organisation was so powerful,that it was much more nearer to revolution than to the thugs of Samuel Doe No one was so much informed of the Ghanian crisis in the Gambia as was KC, through his personal/political relationship with the different actors that were involved KC had a clear picture of the crisis between the Revolutionary left within the JJ regime and the many reactionary military officers.The Ghanian left became a tool of the JJ regime with the hope of turning that so-called revolution to the interest of the masses but today many of them are forced into exile,murdered,imprison etc.This shows that the agenda of the military can never be Revolution,the big talks are always temporal,they died before even reaching their contradictions. The truth surrounding the dead of comrade KC will one day come out,if what former Captain Ebou Jallow claimed,that the murder was political motivated ,which he claimed senior members of the AFPRC are awear of,if the AFPRC government want us to dismiss this statement as unfounded it should then be in their interest to appoint an independent commission to find out the truth.This should be the demand of all the democratic forces in the Gambia.I hereby joined the Family of KC in their demand to know the thruth.May his soul rest in peace !! For Freedom Saiks ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------