Joe et al -

The olive branch was set afire before it was extended to us - witness the
summary dismissals, the arrests and detentions right after the elections.
To keep harping on this branch thing is a joke.  Just as sending Yusupha
Mbye to Scotland for treatment was meant to galvanize student voters to vote
for Yaya, so was the branch thing - we all know what's happened to Yusupha
and opposition members.

That supporters of the regime are mute is no surprise.  Those who have a
modicum of soul, humanity, "Jomm" left in them are fearful of what may
befall not them, but their families.  The rest, according to reports from
those who have sat down and had discussions with them, can overlook the
killings, the arrests, the tortures, the rapes, all of the heinous crimes
committed against the Gambian people because "there is development".  They
can ride their nice cars from one end of town to the next, encountering no
potholes - this is development.  They are comfortable in the knowledge that
they will have their FOUR square meals any day.  That this latter group
includes folks you never would have expected is telling of the seriousness
of conditions back home.  They are the ones who will try to convince you
that what befell the students on April 10th and 11th was justified.
UUUGGGHHHH!!!

Only in the Gambia can your daughter get raped, your son tortured and
killed, your husband kidnapped, detained, tortured, sacked from his job for
no reason and we turn the other cheek.  Only in the Gambia will find people
celebrating their new pair of shoes, forgetting that their feet have been
chopped off by the very person giving them the shoes.  May Allah help the
committed to deliver Gambia from the Satan bent on emasculating our people.

Soffie


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                From:   Joe Sambou [mailto:[log in to unmask]]


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