Juwara's stay in Mile Two depends on what Gambians are willing to tolerate.
Folks, we cannot cuddle a dictatorship.  We have to confront them or else we
are doomed to tyranny.  please read on.


As NDAM Leader Languishes in Mile Two Juwara Followers Threaten Hunger
Strike

The Independent (Banjul)

October 10, 2003
Posted to the web October 13, 2003

Lamin Njie
Banjul

People calling themselves stalwarts of the National Democratic Action
Movement (NDAM) are not taking the arrest and detention of their leader,
Lamin Waa Juwara, lightly. They have declared their intention to go on
hunger strike in protest over his detention, which has no basis in law.

According to them, their conscience would never allow them to eat and drink,
while one of their own who was putting himself up for sacrifice over the
cause of national liberation is still being kept behind bars. "The proposed
protest march from Westfield to State House is inevitable," they indicated.
NDAM's followers said that they have reliable information that Juwara was
not being subjected to physical torture, but was being denied decent food
and water. "We are calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross
to step in and do what is required of them. Amnesty International, the
African Charter on Human and People's Rights, the Judiciary of The Gambia
and the ECOWAS community should intervene to end this dehumanising
treatment" they warned.


They believed that the country's political elites and technocrats should
demonstrate against the mal-administration of the APRC regime. "We will go
on hunger strike if Juwara is not released" they threatened, calling on
President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal to intervene. "Chaos in here is also
chaos in Senegal," they warned.

Meanwhile Pa Manneh, the national youth president of the party said that the
planned protest will depend on how long the NDAM leader was going to be kept
in Mile Two. "The nature of the protest boils down to his condition in
prison," he pointed out. NDAM, he stressed, is not a party that will
willingly allow itself to be taken for a ride. "All Imams, pastors and
preachers for all the country's main religions should call for the immediate
and unconditional release of Mr. Juwara in their respective sermons," he
suggested.

"Juwara should be released immediately as he is not a criminal to be held
without trial," he asserted.

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