Jabou:

This is a fine letter and I think you should proceed with it.  On a
later date we should also write to President Wade for him to insist on
free and fair elections in The Gambia.

With the recent murders by the Jammeh regime, public opinion is against
him.  Under free and fair elections Jammeh is more than likely to be
thrown out.

Keep up the good work.

Abdoulaye

No justice, no peace!
Jammeh Must Go!

Jabou Joh wrote:
>
> My apologies to all. I forgot to mention that nay editing or additions to
> this letter are welcome. For instance, I think we should address it to the
> Senegalese public also.I also think we should send a copy to Amnesty
> International headquarters, as well as to their Gambia Desk officer, and to
> various newspapers in Senegal and the sub-region. Please give your comments
> on that. I am sure the editing and additions can be done without affecting
> any signatures that have already been added. Thanks.Text is below, so feel
> free. I am also urging those people in Gambia to please take the time to add
> their signatures.Let us save the lives of these fleeing students, it is the
> least we can do.May I also mention that this is rather urgent.
>
> Jabou Joh
>
> << G-L,
>
>  Here is a copy of a letter I sent to the Senegalese government on behalf of
>  the students who have fled to Senegal, and whose repatriation is being sought
>  by the regime in Gambia. May I request that Mr Njai put this at the petition
>  website, and may I request one and all to please go there and add your
>  signature so we can send this out as soon as possible. Thanks to all.
>
>  Jabou Joh
>
>   To: The Government of Senegal.
>   From: All Justice loving Gambians .
>
>   Dear President Wade.
>
>   We have been notified that the Gambia government has requested Senegal to
>  repatriate the students who have fled into Senegal to save their lives from
>  the murderous regime in Gambia that has already killed our  children in cold
>  blood, and who are now hunting these students like wild animals.
>
>   We call upon you as a neighbour and as a brother who has the best interest
>  of the Gambian people at heart, not to turn our students over to this regime
>  who will probably turture and murder them. Some of the students who have been
>  detained by the Gambia Security forces have not been charged or allowed
>  visits with their families, and the whereabouts of some of these students in
>  the hands of the security forces have not been made known to the public or
>  their families, even though the government has said that they will conduct a
>  thorough and fair investigation. Time and experience has shown us that we
>  cannot put any trust in the promises given by this regime.
>
>   It is also a general concensus by all sober thinking Gambians, as well as
>  all justice loving people the World over,  that the security forces opened
>  fire on students when they were exercising their constitutional right to
>  demonstrate against what was seen as a gross  miscarriage of justice. Two of
>  their fellow students were killed and raped respectively without the
>  government making any attempts to bring the culprits to justice, and this was
>  the reason for the demonstration . Infact,of the two cases the students were
>  protesting , the rape case was not even looked into, and in the murder case,
>  the autopsy report was falsified and the perpetrators left to go scot free
>  until this tragedy forced them to say that the perpetrators are now in
>  custody. Time will tell if this claim is true.
>
>    We implore you in the name of all that binds our two countries together,
>  and these are many, from blood relationships  to a timeless common history,
>  not to repatriate these students to what could undoubtedly be a dismal end
>  for such young lives.
>
>   The atrocity of firing live bullets into a crowd of young demonstartors was
>  perpetrated on our country by the government of the day, and yet, the best
>  thing they have given the Gambian people is a shameless denial, and a failure
>  to face up to the responsibility of inflicting this tragedy on our once
>  peaceful and peace loving country.We wish from the bottom of our hearts that
>  this regime would remove itself from the backs of the Gambian people once and
>  for all.
>
>  Ours is a dictatorship where nothing happens without the blessing of our
>  President, and yet, he stood before the Gambian public and pretended that he
>  was not responsible for this atrocity. Why then are his enforcers hunting
>  down our children in cold blood? This denial and callousness is a nightmare
>  that is hovering over the heads of all Gambians the Whole World over. We are
>  desolate, and in the grips of nightmares since this terrible inhumane act,
>  the likes of which we never envisioned occurring in our country. We implore
>  you not to worsen this nightmare for us by repatriating our children to their
>  doom.
>
>  From all indications,, it is clear that every attempt is being made to
>  inflict even more pain and human rights abuses on these students with this
>  endless witch hunt, and the rampant arrest of students all over the country
>  since this tragedy unfolded.
>
>   We implore you in the name of Allah almighty, as a brother and a neighbour,
>  to make every attempt to save the lives of these poor Gambian students by not
>  only refraining from  repatriating them, but also to do everything in your
>  power to ensure their safety in Senegal.We put you in charge of their lives
>  with the confidence that this trust will not be betrayed. Thank you.
>
>   Sincerely,
>
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