I agree that it should not be restricted to just the Gambian Missions. The
U.N. and other bodies ought to be included. Open to ideas and suggestions.
Latjor
>
>Latjor,
>
>Your idea of a petition is good but sending them to Gambian missions will
>not help. These petitions must bwe addressed to the UN High Commissioner
>for
>Human Rights, Mary Robinson, UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan and the
>Commonwealth Secretary General. These are under international pressure to
>deal with wanton abuses of human rights such as witnessed in the Gambia.
>Each and very member of L must be encouraged to send an e-mail to all these
>people. That is the only way to move our collective protest from the L to
>the International scene.
>
>>From: latjor ndow <[log in to unmask]>
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Massacre of Students in The Gambia
>>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:44:32 PDT
>>
>>Greetings:
>>I join the rest in expressing my condolences to the families of the
>>deceased
>>students.
>>I also express my indignation to this attrocities perpetrated by the
>>officers. All reports being received indicate that only students and
>>civilians died, killed by 'law enforcement officers'. While some have
>>cautioned to wait for the full details of this attrocity to come out, one
>>cannot deny that at the very least, the officers over stepped the
>>boundaries
>>of human dignity.
>>If they were provoked by the students, assuming that was the case here
>>(there was reporting of looting by the students), the officers ought to
>>have
>>simply arrested the students using restrained force. I am sure they have
>>other less deadly tools of their trade that would have been more
>>appropriate. But using deadly force??? No! No! No!
>>What do we do? Certainly move in the direction suggested by Dr. Saine,
>>Alpha
>>and others.
>>My suggestion is to also mobilize our respective communities, draft a
>>protest letter to be signed by as many people as possible and submit it to
>>the Gambian Missions abroad, while also following through with the other
>>suggestions being developed here.
>>Latjor
>>
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