Gambia-L,
Our nation is in deep trouble,this time again the Gambian people are on the
street to defy the believed that their political maturity should be
question.However they show sympathy with the students and the killing of their
children will without doubt deepen their political consciousness. It is
unfortunate that the minister is trying to lie to the nation that the
paramilitary were not armed with bullets.It is unfortunate that the Vice
president could at no moment point a finger on the security forces for this
serious crime against a whole nation.She instead put the blame squarely on the
students,is she not a wear of the fact that our nation is indeed pain,it what
type of society would such an act of irresponsibility mobilize sympathy ? not
in the Gambian society.It was no accident that when the public media was
available to the Gambian people they made it known to her and the rest that
some one must explain.I was at the scene of the shooting that took place near
by the Paramilitary barracks.I was perhaps the first person who attended to
one of the victims,who was seriously bleeding in my hands.Before that the
scene at the Kanifing Gamtel junction was much more of a disorganized dialog
between the military personals and the students.It was at that place a sister
was waving his banner,on which she wrote "We will rather die than see
Injustice",a moment after a sister arrived at the junction asking all of us to
make a retreat because the paramilitary officials were shooting at the
students and some one die,in her hand was a blood stain school uniform of a
student whom she said was already dead.The news of the killing made the
situation more tense and stones were thrown at the soldiers,the running
soldiers were retreating towards the paramilitary barracks were told by the
students to tell the paramilitary to stop the shooting and killing.As the
soldiers retreat the students continue to advance,then when they got closer
the paramilitary opened fire,the students were running and the paramilitary
continue the shooting.Not in the air,but at the students who were running for
their lives.When they took a break from the shooting,two of us starting
shouting that some are been shot whiles running towards the victims.It was a
matter of seconds when the ambulance arrived from the direction of
Banjul,perhaps from delivering the victims from the first shooting.On my way
home people were shocked to hear that the blood stain on my clothes were from
a victim who was shot at the demonstration.The people were shock and if the
minister believed that there were no witness to these events then he is
marking a serious mistake.I am a witness to the scene were Gambina students
were shot at and killed for demanding that justice be done and all those who
are not speaking their voices against this most serious crime against humanity
,history will settle an account with them.The blood of these innocent and
diffenceless students will never sink in vain,they are those of our brothers
and sister.Right now there are three unidentify victims not yet burried .Those
who have deied are heros of the nation,they are buried like heros .I salute
them all.
I will be back with more of the story.
For Freedom
Saiks
I received this update from the Gambia a shortwhile ago.
Ebrima Ceesay
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Ebrima,
Someone has just called my office to say we should be on the alert because
something is going to happen. I do not know what that means but what I do
know is that the Bakau Depot has been emptied of women and children. I hope
it is not another carnage among the forces themselves.
Meanwhile, a serious tension is brewing in the country, this time, between
the Paramilitary Forces and the Gambia National Army (GNA).
The GNA is pointing fingers at the para-military and the para-military
forces in turn is blaming the GNA for what happened. The police is left on
the side lines as usual.
They are all jockeying for position in readiness for Jammeh's arrival. Have
you read the Vice President's speech delivered last evening? Isn't it
disgusting? She has lost whatever respect and dignity she had left, if ever
there was anything there in the first place.
The dead bodies have also started to decompose, but there is an instruction
from President Jammeh that no one of them should be buried until he returns,
even if it means that the bodies are going to decompose or get rotten.
Anyway, I am going home to beat the traffic and the possible road blocks. I
do not trust my office any more.
Meanwhile, please continue to pray for us.
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