Jabou,
I share your views, there should' nt be any comprise with Jammeh, the guy
has stolen enough from the masses. He and his gang has done enough killings
and tortures we will never forget. He need to be prosecuted with his gang,
that way we can set a standard for any person wanting to lead the country.
If Jammeh should get immunity which he managed to slip into the
constitution, get a generous pension what message are we sending to the
people. Is it that you can take over power, steal, bully, toture, detain,
kill etc., get a generous pension and be protected by the same people you
reduced to nothing.
We have to set an example so that the likes of Jammeh will never be born
again in the history of the Gambia. The nation has to be protected from the
likes of Jammeh. The position paper is good but these two points are a
matter of concern to me because we are not dealing with a short term issue
but a long term one. Something that will guide us from all kinds of inhuman
treatment. For the government to deny the people the right to self
determination and impose on them the status of slaves is morally
indefensible.
The Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh
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From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 22 April 2000 17:07
Subject: Re: Request help in drafting a position paper calling for a
peaceful end to t...
>Katim,
>
>I would like to assist in any way I can on this. However, I have to
register
>my opposition to the offer of no prosecution and a generous pension to
>Jammeh. That is a proposal that I oppose vehemently since thses people have
>already robbed our national coffers, and deserve no pension at all, not to
>mention a generous one. This pension would not have been an issue of debate
>had this administration carried out their assigned duties for the Gambian
>people, but in my opinion, they have instead, robbed, pillaged and
murdered,
>and therefore have more or less deprived themselves of this priviledge.
>Pensions are given to show appreciation for services rendered, and their is
a
>nightmare, not a service to be appreciated and rewarded.
>Regarding granting them immunity, that would be the greatest miscarriage of
>justice in our history, rivalled only by the ones being levied against our
>people by this very group for which we are proposing immunity for.
>If these two points can be eliminated from this proposal, then you have my
>cooperation, otherwise, no thanks.This proposal should call for the
>unconditional removal of Jammeh and his band of gypsies from the backs of
the
>Gambian people, and nothing else. That is the only fair stand we should
take,
>and nothing else.
>
>Jabou Joh
>
>In a message dated 4/22/00 1:01:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask]
>writes:
>
><< Hi folks,
>
> I am writing to seek help in preparing a position paper that will be used
to
> work toward a peaceful end of the Jammeh government. You might recall
that
> earlier this week, I informed the list that I was fortunate to meet
> Wisconsin's Senator Russell Feingold, a member of the Senate Foreign
> Relations Committee, and also the Ranking Member of that Committee's
Africa
> Sub-Committee.
> >>
>
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