Mr. Ebou Jallow,
please for my information, what is it again that Jammeh want the opposition
to reconcile. I can not remember. Is it a specific act, is it something in
general? I remember that he after the re- election  "asked for" the
political debate to be finished for now. I thought he meant until next
election and maid a comment on this list, that politics should not only be
around election, but mostly all year round. Is it that speech you refer to,
when you talk about the invitation for reconciliation?
You are right that inflammatory rhetoric is regressive, and all people, not
only in The Gambia or in politics should learn from that.
Asbjørn Nordam
> 
> The "opposition" will be taken seriously if and only if they respond to
> Jammeh's call for reconciliation.  Empty threats and imflammatory
> rhetorics is regressive and an anachronistic throwback to a bygone
> era.  They should approach Jammeh with sincerity and forget about his
> personality.  It is the political culture, stupid NOT Yaya Jammeh( as
> the US slang goes). It is reconcialiation that ended the Apartheid
> regime and not the Umkatha guerrilla movement.  It is reconcialition
> that reintegrated democratic party politics in Ghana and Senegal NOT
> the politics of vengeance.

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