From The Point 8/16/2000

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RSF Calls For Arrest Of Radio 1FM Attackers

In a letter sent to Interior Secretary, Ousman Badjie, the
Paris-based international media organisation Reporters Sans
Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) has called on the
minister to do everything in his powers to ensure that those
responsible for the attack on Radio 1FM are arrested and tried.

RSF noted for the moment nobody has claimed responsibility
for the attack and nobody has been able to identify the assailants and that
such an act had never occurred in The Gambia. RSF expressed concern over the
news that the proprietor of the station George Christensen had suffered
injuries as well as two of his colleagues.

It also lamented the fact that the radio had to stop broadcasting owing to
the attack meted against it. The letter,dispatched to the minister, was
signed by the Secretary General of the organisation, Robert Menard.

In another development, a staff of the radio station, Alieu Bah,
is said to have received a death threat through a letter he found
in his home purportedly from wouldbe arsonists who visited his home.

The arsonists said they wanted to put his house on fire, but were dissuaded
to do so when they saw his baby sleeping between him and his wife. As a
testimony of their visit, they asked him to check his broken window. The
letter contains a warning for him to do away with his work. Reporters Sans
Frontieres defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom in the world.

The organisation has eight national sections in Germany,Belgium, Spain,
France, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.
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