The regime of Jammeh have suppress issues of
intellectual freeedom which is a basic human rights
principles. How many qualify Gambians have lost their
Jobs within such a lot period, while he is buliding a
mono ehtnic national army.It is only a leader with
intellectual sense of direction and political maturity
that can safe our nation with her development
crisis.It also the regime of Jammeh that have put our
nation to the map of erosion of human rights.Gambia
needs a leader that have respect for the rule of
law,liberal democracy and social Justice.Many people
don't know, put When you visit Kanilai you will know
that Jammeh follows Mabutu's Pattern like his mentor.
AbdouKarim Sanneh
Manchester UK
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> If you picked up the phone and called Sedia Jatta at
> home , he will gladly
> discuss public policy with . The same is true for
> Ousainou Darboe. It
> wouldn't make a difference if you have never met
> neither man. Similarly if
> you picked up a phone and called Haruna Darboe in
> Atlanta , or Joe Sambou in
> Chicago or Jabou Joh in Memphis, you could engage in
> fruitful dialogue about
> Gambian matters. What all these folks have in common
> is not a unanimity of
> ideas on how best to move Gambia forward. The
> binding thread among them is
> a strong and fundamental believe in democracy and
> the rule of law. Having
> spoken to all of them I also know that they bring
> incredible passion and
> integrity to issues of our country. I have not
> always agreed with them on all
> issues, but with a uniform commitment to open and
> fair contest of ideas,
> engaging them has always been a worthwhile exercise.
> I have a strong sense as
> a citizen I could do business with people of this
> caliber not because there
> is anything special about them as individuals, but
> because of their strong
> devotion to a law based foundation for our national
> journey. Once we all
> agree on the rules and follow them scrupulously and
> fairly, constructive
> engagement becomes almost inevitable as various
> ideas compete for public
> support. Our system of government and more
> importantly will be better of for
> it.
> As I have said before the government of Yahya
> Jammeh cannot ever be
> constructively engaged precisely because the regime
> and its entire
> configuration is not interested in a process and
> institution based form of
> government. Their agenda is the molding of a
> thorough Banana republic by
> collapsing or severely compromising all
> institutions leaving the people with
> only an appearance of a government.I will not
> question the motivations of
> those who advocate a dialogue with the regime of
> Yahya Jammeh. For the record
> I will never ever be part of such an effort because
> of the following reasons:
> 1-The government in my view is illegitimate because
> it did not democratically
> assume power in manner prescribed by Gambian law.
> 2-The President is personally responsible for
> murdering innocent Gambian
> citizens, directing the abductions, torture and
> detention even more of our
> people in a deliberate and willful scheme to
> terrorize a civilian population
> into submission
> 3-The President has by design subverted the laws of
> the Gambia by presiding
> over a Gestapo like regime that uses law enforcement
> as an instrument of
> terror on his political opponents. Equal protection
> under law which is at the
> very essence of a civilized country has long been
> set aside in the Gambia.
> 4-Gambians cannot count on judicial redress of their
> grievances in their own
> country because of the dictatorial tendencies of the
> regime that has
> succeeded in compromising the judiciary.
> 5-The pillage and plunder of the poor Gambian to
> finance the insulting
> excesses of a President of country in which most
> people can't afford decent
> food. (I will soon submit a ten page piece on an
> exhaustive analysis of State
> Houses expenditures both on and off the book
> accounts. Tens of millions of
> Dalasis of the Gambian people's money being
> squandered .)
> To those who understand all the above and even
> agree with them, I ask you
> a simple question. What do they mean to you? What do
> you hope to uphold if
> all these significant issues do not merit your total
> repudiation of a regime
> that is the closest thing to evil? I am yet to see
> anyone come to this list
> and say well you know what Yahya Jammeh murdered my
> relative or jailed my
> sister but I want to leave all that unresolved and
> move on. Justice is at the
> heart of any resolution of the Gambian problem. This
> regime has committed
> unforgivable crimes against our nation and people.
> The key to forging ahead
> must first adequately address these serious national
> grievances in way and
> manner prescribed by our laws. I find all these
> prattle about moving on
> utterly unpersuasive especially when it is
> paraphrased with a contention that
> the regime has committed all these serious crimes.
> If murder, pillage and
> plunder do not sufficiently perturb us as a people
> who wish our country well,
> what will? We are not talking about buttonholing
> Halifah or some other decent
> politician about issues. Yahya Jammeh and his
> entire regime are nothing but
> an incestuous cabal of criminals who want to appeal
> to the worst instincts of
> Gambians . They want you to be accessories to their
> ongoing evil enterprise
> by having you in effect rationalize crimes against
> your own people. It is
> always easier when the victim is not close enough
> but don't ever assume it
> doesn't hurt. One high school kid from Brufut I was
> watching on tape the
> other day at an event that was held in Sept of 2001
> summed the entire battle
> . He stood before a crowd in the center Brufut and
> said he was there to urge
> the people of his town to oppose the brutal regime
> of Yahya Jammeh who
> murdered his friend and classmate in cold blood on
> April 10 of the previous
> year. He said his friend bled to death almost in his
> hands and the trigger
> man is walking streets thanks to a creul regime who
> both murdered his friend
> and was mocking his memory. In a brave show of
> character, he also told the
> assembled crowd that his parents have thrown him out
> of their home for
> opposing Yahya Jammeh. He then turned and pointed
> out another friend he said
> has taken him in and was sharing what little he had
> with him. He told the
> crowd he felt the only thing he could do for his
> friend who the gov't has
> killed was to do all he can to bring about a regime
> change and ultimate
> justice for the victims. In a conservative town like
> Brufut, to defy one's
> parents was a pretty traumatic thing for a high
> school kid to do, but this
> chap did it because it was the right thing to do. We
> all have to stand for
> those who can't readily stand for themselves. This
> whole idea of us being in
> the Diaspora somehow making us detached frankly
> strikes me as a canard. I am
> part and parcel of what happens to my country and to
> my people. My own mother
> suspended medical treatment so that she can travel
> 300 miles to my native
> Georgetown to go an vote for President. I have a
> responsibility to vindicate
> the very purpose of her vote which was illegally
> diluted by ineligible voters
> and other shenanigans.
> My objective is to work for the establishment
> of regime composed of
> honorable people chosen by the Gambian people of
> their own volition. That
> cannot be this regime under any circumstances. They
> are irredeemable
> criminals in my mind.
> Karamba
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