Brother Abdoukarim,

I read your piece while still at work. So this is just to acknowledge your
frustration about the continued incaceration of Mariam Denton, and our own
perceived "powerlessness" to be of any consequence in affecting
her condition.  I share your sentiments, fully.

Cheers,
Sidibeh




2006/6/1, abdoukarim sanneh <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> Campaign for the Freedom of Mariam Denton
>
> I cannot understand the silence within the Gambia opposition and civil
> society about the illegal detention of one of the most dynamic and
> charismatic women in the struggle for human rights violation in our country.
> I cannot also understand the silence also among the activist in the diaspora
> to campaign for the release of a woman who have been advocating for gender
> issues, women's rights and their participation in National politics.Thesilence in the campaign for the release of Mariam Denton is due the folding
> division among us about the issue of NADD and UDP/NRP coalition. She is
> victim today who knows the next person to be engulf into Yahya Jammeh's
> madness? We can be divided on that issue of opposition politics but it is
> about time to stand and intensify the struggle for the release of innocent
> souls who have incarnated in Mile Two prison.
>
> Folks, Mariam Denton and many others are victims of the criminal regime.
> She is been framed for a coup that did not happen. Yahya Jammeh has
> criminalised all sectors Gambian society. The regime has induced state of
> fear into our people. There is massive erosion of human right in our country
> since the unfortunate events of July 1994.The daily life of our people is
> on the edge. Gambia will continue to be sad story among the wretched
> countries in Black Africa as long as we have a butcher dragging our people
> into the time of butcher bird, such as the illegal arrest and detention of
> Mariam Denton, MC Cham and others. The criminal regime has destroyed the
> independence of the judiciary with the army of his mercenary judges and
> lawyers who have no professional ethics. The continuing detention of Mariam
> Denton without allowing the due process of law of our land to take its
> course is illegal.
>
> I have a strong respect of Mariam Denton among the team of legal
> luminaries in our country. She was active when many are silence. She was
> active when many among them where subscribing to strengthen the hand of the
> devil. Mariam Denton was very vocal and instrumental in fighting the bogus
> and illegal decrees, many of which are a mockery of our democracy. How can a
> constitutional democracy incorporate military decrees into its statutory
> code? It is the madness of Yahya Jammeh and dishonest elites putting the
> life of our citizens in ransom.
>
> Folks let us give credit where credit is due. It is our social
> responsibility to fight against dehumanisation inflicted on our people.
> Mariam Denton, have champion the course of defending the defenceless. We
> will not be fair to the struggle for the restoration of democracy if we did
> not keep the momentum for her release. Our campaign should focus on
> sensitising British Government, United States Government, United Nations,
> African Union, European Union and Human Rights Organisations. In raising the
> issue of Mariam Denton�s detention on phone with public relation officer for
> Amnesty International UK, it is unfortunate to learn that with all the
> crimes inflicted on our people, Gambia for about two years do not feature in
> Amnesty international annual report.
>
> I thank my fellow final year student colleagues at the University of
> Bolton for their efforts in collecting signatures sent to Amnesty
> International UKand local MP Brian Iddott of Bolton West about the pledge to
> pressure The Gambia Government to release Mariam Denton. I hope many will
> replicate their effort in the global struggle for social justice.
>
>
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