Amadou and Musa,
Thanks to all of you and some of those who had tried to report Jawara's talks
on this forum. Already a few people had mentioned everything that need to be
mentioned.
However, reading between the lines for what the former president had to say
and the reply he gave to Malafy Jarju on his question about returning to
power just stunned me. I thought the guy was doing all of these to work
forward to apologizing to the Gambia as Saul Saidykhan pointed out. It has to
be clear to Jammeh and all those former ministers following him that yes the
Gambians might be disgust with the Jammeh regime, but if they think that they
have unfinished business after 30 years of corrupt and the same HUMAN RIGHT
abuses Jammeh just happen to be better at, I think they are dreaming.
Because of all the discussions at the moment going on the L- for a
reconciliation's, I was refraining myself from joining this discussion until
I read what he replied to Mr. Jarju's question. I would have loved to ask
Jawara if he remembered imprisoning his oppositions for years and denying
them the due process of the court just as Jammeh is doing.  And my second
question to him was going to be how he would have felt if he was caught by
the junta and imprisoned for years denying his family visitation rights?
Being a direct victim of that and kidnapping a school boy in the name of
national security during his era is not worse(t)  than what Jammeh might be
doing.
I certainly take it just as Musa Jeng pointed out, "He just did not get it."
The guy need to rake a rest and take the advise from Saul to try to write a
memoire so that we could all learn from the mistakes he did.

Ousman Bojang.

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