Abdou Toure wrote:

" The second aspect
of his agenda is to vehemently challenge any ill-informed attempt
to pervert Gambian history by the sweeping condemnation of PPP and
echoes of aprc propaganda that the jawara era brought naught to
Gambia. That is not intellectual exchange. That is simply an
irresponsible display of contempt and bias."


Perhaps we are aliens from different solar systems but statements like the
above paraded here in the name of ousting Yayha Jammeh from power seems to
me a onr of the most chilling and irresponsible statements to the line the
face of Gambia-L. But not to question the inclusion of the PPP in the
Alliance and to pretend that Jawara's rule was a thirty-year-long joyride
along Kairaba Avenue (or Nevsky Prospect!) is so gross a delusion as to be
eclipsed only by the severity of the tragic history it fails to acknowledge.

The quest to remove Jammeh from power is a just cause. There is absolutely
no need to engage in peddling imaginative fibbles in defence of the PPP as a
way of bolstering the moral and organizational integrity of the Alliance. Of
course, it is untrue that Jawara brought naught to Gambia. What he and the
PPP left us was a vast and devouring emptiness from which Jemus Jammeh
emerged. Former president Jawara and the PPP are the surrogate parents of
Yahya Jammeh and all that he has done to Gambia. Not to recognise that, much
less question the wisdom of including the PPP in the Alliance is satanic
hypocrisy. I'll rather be damned.

Momodou S Sidibeh
Stockholm/Kartong.






>From: Moses Sarr <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Attention Kebba Dapha
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:57:45 +0000
>
>Jabou,
>
>I don't think KB is doing anything bad, you may not like the way he
>sometimes response to some issues, but I don't think it is fair to make
>such
>a conclusion about him . On the contrary, the guy is not trying to shut
>anybody up (infact i suppose no-one can do that).
>
>I may agree than he replies to any mail that concerns him, but that's left
>to him, he has the time, let him do it.
>
>Just because he replies to all mails, does not make him sensitive to
>criticism.
>
>Let's just debate the issues and forget about addressing specific persons,
>that communication is best done in private.
>
>Just my observation...
>
>-Mose-
>
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