EBOU COLLY:

WOW! Great job once again. Like Hamjatta and KB, you have silenced your
critics, and more importantly, you have shattered their strategy into bits,
and even forced them to retreat. This is what TRUTH-TELLING, HONESTY,
INTEGRITY and INTELLECTUAL contribution is all about: Fetching brilliant
ideas and piecing them together, rather than playing a cowardly game of hide
and seek, distorting the truth, creating havoc, deception, division and
manipulation; or sometimes, even insulting people who are dead serious and
devoted to the restoration of democracy back home. As you have already
mentioned, APRIL in The Gambia and in every part of the World used to be a
month for EASTER celebration when every Christian faith, and even some
Muslims remember EASTER SUNDAY and MONDAY as days for repentance; but Last
and This Year, respectively, have been difficult times for every Gambian at
home and abroad. For APRIL celebration in The Gambia is now over shadowed by
remembering the brutal massacre of our beloved children in cold blood by our
own Government: An African Government murdering its own children, as if we
are in Apartheid South African where Blacks were slaughtered by Whites on a
daily basis. In Apartheid South African then, one could understand that
hatred was from the other Race: White South Africans, a common enemy Black
South Africans were fighting against. But in our own case, the ENEMY in
within, and from us. It is our own Black Leaders who become their own race's
bitter enemy, and careless about protecting the lives and property of their
own people. Instead, they become so vicious, despotic, wicked and out to
kill just to maintain their power base, period. In the 21st Century, when we
want African Teachers to teach us, when we want African Leaders to lead, our
dreams are always shattered and our hopes dazed from suck and disappointment
by our own  leaders. When shall the African become free from oppression,
intimidation, killings and brutal torture. This is what is currently
prevailing in the Gambia. Our beloved children were murdered whiles
expressing their God given Rights: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. And yet, justice
has not prevailed. It makes one to wonder whether we were better under
Colonial Rule than now; it is hard to swallow, but that is the truth.

It is even more insulting and heartbreaking to see the MORON'S portray in
which he is seen holding a child with an AK47 RIFLE hanging around his
shoulder visibly displayed on ARCH 22 on the Serekunda-Banjul High Way. This
ARCH is visible when coming from Serekunda to Banjul. This is the very man
who has been seen rescuing a child with AK47, who had given CLEAR and
CONCISE ORDERS to shoot and kill, with the vivid intention of filling the
MORTUARY with corpses of innocent children who were just exercising their
God given Right. How could somebody who gave clear and concise orders to
shoot and kill innocent school children be seen in a portray holding a child
as his symbol of rescuing children? What that very portray of the MORON
clearly illustrates is the DARK SIDE of him, which we now know: A child
killer. The ARCH, instead, should be turned into a NATIONAL MONUMENT, which
portrays the images of ALL those children who have died in the massacre; and
ALL their names should be listed on the monument as our fallen Heroes, just
like the Washington Monument, which shows a complete list of all those
Vietnam Veterans.

Pertaining to your summation of the Farafenni episode, the PAUL GOMEZES of
this World have been trying tirelessly to silence you, for they are very
well aware of the DAMAGE your piece by piece presentation is causing them.
Paul neither denied the truthfulness of your episodes nor did he try to
prove you wrong. He was just acting as an impediment to your vivid and
truthful presentation in order to minimize the damage you are causing them.
We are NOT living in a World of Fantasy here, rather, we are living in a
REAL World in which you are doing a tremendous favor for US in exposing the
VERMIN and his cohorts. The content of your episodes are absolutely
frightening and inexcusable. Since you have first hand knowledge of what had
occurred during your tenure, history would not treat you well if you did not
educate the general public as to what had happened. But in the interest of
FAIRNESS, HONESTY, INTEGRITY and RESPONSIBILITY, despite mammoth task and
other pressing work at hand, your have volunteered to painstakingly take
time to piece it together for us. You should be commended for such a brave
act: Truth-Telling. This is the fundamental distinction between you and your
nemesis, Paul Gomez, who instead of lamenting on facts, and facts only, he
spills unfounded stories upon unfounded stories just to silence you; he has
failed miserably, and will continue to fail in his blatant attempt to derail
truth-telling.

In conclusion, another disturbing scenario in your episode is the
TRI-ANGULATIONS DIPLOMACY played by KUKOI. He was tri-angulating between the
REBELS and GENERAL WANE. One should wonder what was really being discussed
between the two interesting characters. On one hand we have one of Africa's
notorious and worst killers, Kukoi, and on the other hand, we have seen a
well schooled, disciplined, experienced and man of integrity, General Wane
of Senegal. The stunning question is, why did Senegal opened hers arms to
welcome their principal nemesis during the 1981 coup; a man who had killed
about 500 Senegalese troops or more.  Someone whose hands had been stained
with blood, and who had been on Wanted List in Senegal for almost 20 years.
In the post Jawara days, the man whose hands had been stained with human
blood, has NOW got clean hands to sit and eat with Senegalese authorities
from the same basin; this was pathetic and ridiculous, a worst mistake on
Senegal's part. As I have already mentioned in some of my pieces, Senegal
after the break-up of the Confederation, they had developed so much hatred
for Jawara that they became blind-sighted in welcoming and opening arms to
Rebel diplomats. That was a tremendous blow to Senegal's Foreign Policy:
CUDDLING REBEL DIPLOMATS, for the sheer sake of settling scores. That kind
of cowardly act further plunges our Sub-region into REGIONAL CONFLICT and
unnecessary ARMS RACE, which has an enormous consequence of dwindling
economic investment. On that note, Mr. Colly, you have done a superb job.

Ansumana.



>From: ebou colly <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: THE FARAFENNI ATTACK THREE
>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:07:40 -0700
>
>                                              FARAFENNI
>ATTACH THREE
>  In my life, April was once one of the best months in
>the year until last year when the most unimaginable
>horror descended on the children of the land where I
>grew to love this month so much. I will not attempt to
>delve into the syntax of what made April so wonderful
>to me in the past, because as we all understand it;
>the month is now a sacred period for mourning and
>hurting. It should be shaded red in all calendars to
>represent the horrible pools of blood wasted from
>armless Gambian children. Children whose lives were
>prematurely and unjustifiably terminated by creatures
>who are sill walking freely and defiantly unrepentant.
>So while we all try to identify and sympathize with
>the families and survivors of this sad event, we must
>bear in mind that we owe it to history to continue
>finding ways of bringing the culprits to book. I am
>therefore encouraged and very hopeful with the noble
>efforts of the Human Rights Organization in The
>Gambia. They are commendable in the pursuance of their
>duty to tackle the issue where the government
>blatantly refused to act. The desire to heal the
>affected hearts can only be realized after the
>necessary actions are taken against the perpetrators
>with their unconditional repentance seen, which must
>include everybody who had associated with them.
>Killing unarmed children is unimaginably diabolical
>but when the state shamelessly lie about it, it truly
>epitomizes the root of all evil.
>It may take time and cost a lot of moral and emotional
>pain especially when the wriggling to step above and
>move ahead keeps on sinking every step deeper instead.
>But if it cannot be now it would definitely come
>later. I have no doubt in my mind that good people
>will someday be in charge and would address this
>lingering problem to the satisfaction of every
>concerned person. The criminals will be tried in The
>Gambia's court of law and meted the appropriate
>punishment. And for the healing process, memorial
>structures will be erected as reminders and preventive
>warning-symbols.  Perhaps it would be a colossal wall
>with distinct inscriptions of every dead child's name
>guaranteed to withstand the effects of time and
>weather.
>Let us however continue to pray for the souls of these
>murdered kids which may still be restless from the
>insanity that descended in The Gambia, April 10-11
>2000. May god give them the special reception they
>deserve in his great heavenly kingdom where there is
>eternal peace and love. Amen.
>Having said that tribute, I would have preferred going
>straight to the conclusion of my main topic, as I
>expected to do this weekend. But the case of Mr. Paul
>Gomez is relatively important to be over looked. After
>a thorough scrutiny of the man's mindset, I almost
>fell for the temptation of treating him as Hamjatta
>did; provide him with a shrink's web site and ignore
>him for good. But considering his rascality, Gomez
>easily reminded me of the Wollof maxim that rascals
>may not tell the truth but can definitely poison
>minds.
>As a result, instead of leaving Gomez to continue
>making senseless remarks all over the place I decided
>to walk him step by step through the maddening things
>he writes thinking that he is on top of everybody.
>Another typical loony's habit. But I still have my
>doubts over the effectiveness of my approach
>considering the fact that it is simple English I am
>writing again. The chap's reading and comprehension
>ability is either below average or he does not read
>everything he tries to understand in an article. I
>wish I could have a way to communicate with him in
>Wollof or Mandinka. Perhaps that would have helped him
>understand better. I will however address his case in
>the third person with the hope that some kind reader
>who knows this bimbo will help him with the conceptual
>meaning of this text. I do not want him to come back
>confusing the sun from the moon or the trees from the
>trucks in the streets.
>Anyway in Gomeze's opening statement he started by
>talking about his special tool and how he wisely used
>it to decorticate the shell that revealed to him the
>secret of my identity, childishly boasting of the
>first to know that Ebou Colly is Samsudeen or Colonel
>Samsudeen Sarr. I have no problem with that. I think I
>can work with the guy on those parameters. After all
>if I were not Ebou Colly I would have definitely
>preferred being Colonel Samsudeen Sarr.
>Anyway before dealing with the actual points raised in
>his writing, I first want Gomez to reexamine his
>heading properly which seemed to have no bearing to
>what I wrote about.  He wrote, Ebou Colly "justifies
>the rebellion he condemned months back…" What made
>this man to conclude that my article had anything to
>even closely justify the terrible actions of those
>rebel killers at Farafenni barracks was the first
>signal to warn me of the dangerous mind behind the
>story. Sister Jabou tried to draw his attention to his
>misconception or misunderstanding of what I wrote, but
>as an average loony, he reacted in the best way they
>usually do, with absolute malice.  She was as patient
>as trying to illustrate the reason behind my story not
>knowing that this man-by all indications can be
>perfectly termed an angry fool very deficient in
>understanding what he reads. I wonder whether he still
>knows anything about the story in the Independent
>NewsPaper a couple of weeks ago that triggered all
>this discussion. Or perhaps it was another story he
>read but could not understand. With the foolish
>character Sister Jabou may have finally observed in
>him, she probably is also searching for some medical
>web sites that help freaks and loonies.
>What an embarrassment that this guy is claiming to be
>a soldier.
>Anyhow I still think he is more of an asset to us than
>a liability. Most of the abstract and seemingly crazy
>statements he makes end up giving me interest new
>ideas about Yaya's regrettable administration. He has
>now flooded me with so many ideas that I am afraid I
>would have to be around for a while to tell all, after
>completing the Farafenni-attack-topic.
>You see, I think he was the very person in another
>name who privately challenged me by referring to that
>Waggeh-produced documentary where Yaya from start to
>end lied about his confrontation with Senegal. Was it
>not good that I clarified that issue which I might
>have otherwise ignored? I thought he was going to come
>back denying what I said about the documentary or tell
>me that Swaibou Conateh was never put at gunpoint to
>draft that speech for us and so on and so forth. But
>no, it was Samsudeen Sarr the coward, Samsudeen Sarr
>with the dreaming grandmother, Samsudeen Sarr the
>minister and prisoner and then Samsudeen Sarr's
>personal diary. Perfect tips for more revelations.
>Now let's look at the points raised by Paul in a bid
>to character assassinate Colonel Samsudeen Sarr.
>But first I want to tackle his low-
>reading-and-understanding standard. He wanted to know
>"If intelligence report from Abdou Joof was so why
>Sarr (the rebel) accused their boss of failing to pay
>them and they were planning to eliminate him?" Too
>abstract to understand by the ordinary reader. However
>I could figure out what he was alluding to. He was
>asking for an explanation of the conflicting ideas I
>said was presented by Yaya on why he rejected Kukoi's
>come-back- home efforts for political reasons and that
>of the rebel's reasons as narrated by Sulayman Sarr,
>one of the attackers extradited from Senegal. He may
>have heard about the rebel's version on GAMTV during
>that opened press conference at the Army Headquarters
>Banjul. The cassette is in mass distribution all over
>the world, easily accessible from many Gambians in the
>USA and Europe. It is clear in that cassette that
>Samsudeen Sarr was the chairman of the
>Army-Public-Relation team, which conducted the
>interview. I mentioned that press conference briefly.
>But I further stated in my closing statements that I
>was going to conclude my story next week by bringing
>the version of the rebels after revealing that of
>Yaya's. That mess caused by Yaya was top secret never
>told in the open as I did last week. Was that another
>line Paul read and misunderstood again? Is Paul not
>something to really wonder about? Up to this moment I
>could swear that Paul is entertaining the belief that
>Ebou Colly was defending the rebels or justifying
>their actions in the "THE FARAFENNI ATTACK" series. No
>this guy is not Essa Sey, Alieu Keita, Kebba Jobe or
>any of the Jammeh protagonists I read in the past.
>This is loony Paul, out to cause more damage in the
>Yaya camp than thinkable. You never know, he may be on
>our side for maximum effect. Essay Sey will seriously
>feel ashamed that people are comparing him with Paul.
>  However to deal with Paul's next point I would have
>to flip back the pages of the Gambia Army's
>peacekeeping-history book in the West African
>sub-region. There is a line of relevance in it to what
>Paul vaguely stated again. Peacekeeping missions were
>two that required full operational participation of
>GNA troops in the size of company contingents, the
>first one deployed in Liberia in 1990 and the second
>and last one in Guinea Bissau in 1999. Mark you, I am
>talking about the time when Samsudeen Sarr was in
>active service in the GNA. He was unceremoniously
>gotten rid of by Yaya in June 1999. Paul might come
>back next time bothering me to explain why Yaya got
>rid of Colonel Samsudeen Sarr as commander of GNA.
>Let's wait and see.
>Mr. Loony asked about Samsudeen Sarr: "Is it correct
>for a colonel to shoot himself in order to be able to
>escape leading a peacekeeping mission to war-ridden
>area in West Africa?"
>On May 4th, 1988, while in command of a confederal
>platoon in Kartong village, Samsudeen Sarr, a second
>lieutenant then, accidentally shot his right thigh at
>close range with a 9mm French Pistol. The Senegalese
>Airforce evacuated him to Dakar in a military aircraft
>where he was hospitalized and treated for four month.
>He was okay and returned to Kartong where he remained
>until the end of the confederation in 1998.
>Charles Taylor invaded Liberia to start their civil
>war in 1989.
>Former President Jawara was ECOWAS chairman in 1990
>making Gambia the country ECOMOG was formed to help
>bring back peace in Liberia. The GNA for the first
>time was to go for peacekeeping in West Africa as part
>of this joint military venture.
>Now what is the sense in Samsudeen Sarr shooting
>himself in 1988 not to go for peacekeeping in a
>war-ridden West African nation in 1990? Was that
>another dream from his grandfather in 1988 that caused
>him to shoot himself to avoid going to Liberia two
>years later? Who can explain Paul's reasoning here?
>Talking about reasoning and dreams Paul again came up
>with Sarr's grandmother's dreams. If his grandmother
>had dreamt about Yaya becoming the best president in
>the Gambia three months before the coup then I think
>we could credit and discredit the old woman
>simultaneously. Yes Yaya has become the president of
>The Gambia-a credit for her dream -come true. But Yaya
>has also become the worst president ever imagined to
>surface in modern times. Killing soldiers and burying
>them in mass graves behind toilet facilities,
>betraying his friends, murdering innocent armless
>Gambians, adults and children alike, stealing private
>and public properties, lying about everything under
>the sun, tribalistic, nepotistic name it, he is every
>bad thing. A darn discredit for his grandmother's
>regrettable dream. I wish he could permanently sedate
>her together  to sleep until she wakes up with another
>dream that Yaya was finally ejected from the Gambia's
>political history forever.
>Paul also talked about calls Sarr tried to make at the
>State House signal office through one Ismaila Jammeh
>to put him through Yaya so that he will be reinstated
>as the Army commander. That would be the worst step
>Samsudeen Sarr would take in finding a job. I don't
>think Yaya would even want to talk to him much more
>give him his job back. But don't you think that Yaya
>would have known and would have tried his own dirty
>tricks like he did on Ebou Jallow when the latter
>tried to confront him during his visit to Washington
>D.C.?
>I think Paul was in his highest nutty spirit he talked
>about Sarr believing that Jatta cast some spell on him
>causing him to leave his job involuntarily. Let
>someone try Jatta for the true reason behind Sarr's
>departure. He would tell you something far from black
>magic or spell casting.
>Paul's so-called personal diary of Samsudeen Sarr is
>another thing. Let's be honest with each other. Do you
>think a low-life deranged person like Paul madly
>obsessed with bringing Samsudeen Sarr's name down will
>have a shadow of conscience asking for clearance to
>publish those "incriminating verses" if he had any at
>hand?  I don't even want to discuss that loony claim.
>He finally broke down Samsudeen's career history into
>calling him minister of information, prisoner, Army
>Commander, etceteras.
>Upon finishing this article, I intend to get into
>those details of what happened on the 22nd July 1994.
>I will explain where the coup was first planned, who
>were the planners, those who executed the operation,
>how Yaya became the chosen leader, how Samsudeen Sarr
>and Captain Mamat Cham were appointed Minister of
>Tourism and Industry and Minister of Information and
>Broadcasting respectively.  And also how they were
>both arrested twenty four hours after their
>appointments and replaced by John P. Bojang, Yaya's
>uncle and Susan Waffa Ogu another close relative of
>Yaya.
>Samsudeen Sarr was however released after ten months
>at death row, Mile Two Central prisons. Captain Mamat
>Cham was released after two years. They were never
>charged of any crime neither were they tried or
>convicted.
>I think Captain Mamat Cham was the worst victim of
>AFPRC abuse and brutality. In my next article I might
>be able to tell the story of this poor fellow . How he
>search for ideas during the coup when the so-called
>organizers did not know what to do. The way he
>implemented the ideas he received and  the trust he
>had for Yaya, just to be arrested when the fluid
>situation was stabilized.
>I do not know where the name Paul come from but he
>claims to be a soldier and certainly one of those who
>were not victims of the wave of arrests and detention
>that affected almost 90% of the GNA officer corps,
>especially the senior ones. In that case Paul was
>either a junior officer or a senior officer who may
>one day be called upon to account for what happened to
>Lieutenant Barrow, Saye, Bah, Jammeh and all those
>butchered soldiers in November 1994. Such officers
>should be able to tell the world how Koro Ceesay was
>killed.
>Paul may know more.
>Let us now pick it up where I left off the Farafenni
>Attack story.
>Certainly Senegal was quite willing to cooperate with
>our Gambian investigating team in following the
>problem to its deepest roots. Three of their
>intelligence officers were sent to the NIA
>headquarters in Banjul to work with us. They were
>really enthusiastic in the beginning until they began
>to notice the unnecessary hostility shown by their
>Gambian counterparts. Some NIA elements were still
>bent on thinking that Senegal masterminded the attack
>to destabilize Yaya's government. The few of us who
>knew the actual truth were not telling anyway for fear
>that the soldiers may hear about it and do something
>detrimental to the state. The Senegalese realized that
>despite all the efforts they took in bringing Sulayman
>Sarr, John Dampha and Essa Baldeh, the Gambia never
>thanked them for the trouble. But the worst one was
>when one NIA officer Thirteen Badgie and a GNA
>intelligence officer Sergeant Sambou (Zainab Jammeh's
>former bodyguard) were sent to Dakar to interview
>Swanding Camara and his group at "San Meter" Central
>Prison. They came after a day accusing the Senegalese
>of unfairness and guilt. According to Badjie, they
>tried to interview the rebels in Mandinka, which they
>thought the Senegalese did not understand. But half
>way through the interview the Senegalese stopped it
>and asked them to leave. Only god knows what Badjie
>tried to ask the rebels that day. Thinking that they
>could conduct an interview in a Senegalese
>intelligence office in a language not understood by
>their hosts was the dumbest action they did. The
>Senegalese however ceased to treat them like VIPs
>making their stay in Dakar so miserable that they had
>to leave prematurely.
>All they had to say when they returned was the bad way
>the Senegalese treated them when they started
>interrogating the captives. But they confirmed meeting
>Swanding Camara and all those mentioned in the
>Independent Newspaper.
>Every one of them virtually said the same thing about
>their past although one could see how Kukoi deceived
>them in the end. Kukoi recruited almost all of them in
>Libya in the 80's as part of a guerilla force that was
>formed to come and overthrow the PPP government. They
>underwent intensive training in Libya on guerilla
>warfare and terrorism. After finishing their training
>instead of the anticipated insurgency to The Gambia,
>Kukoi, put them on a contract to fight for Charles
>Tailor. The contract also included a clause assuring
>them Tailor's total material and moral support in
>their future invasion of The Gambia after the
>overthrow of the Samuel Doe government.
>Anyway what they thought was going to take weeks or
>few months at most to finish, the Liberian war dragged
>on until the PPP government was overthrown in 1994. By
>then, given the nature of the civil war some of them
>had died, others got respectable positions among
>Tailor's elite guards; almost all of them got Liberian
>wives children and names, but the majority were poor,
>miserable and had lost all their self esteem.
>Then one day they called for a meeting to reevaluate
>their situation to see what they should do next. For
>those who felt comfortable with their lives in
>Tailor's government; for example, Yankuba Samateh a
>general and close bodyguard to Tailor, Sheriff Jobe,
>Baba Jobe's brother, and a good number of them called
>their mission to the Gambia quits. They put it to
>their friends that they were after Jawara and since
>Jawara was gone they would rather find a way of
>working with Yaya or leaving him alone. Seventeen of
>them however decided differently. They would consult
>Kukoi the person who brought them to Liberia and ask
>for their pay for the decade or more they fought in
>Liberia without salary.
>When asked how they survived for so long they did not
>hesitate to disclose the banditry and crude survival
>techniques that characterized the rebel's world. John
>Dampha the ex-GNA officer had personally confessed to
>me that they used to feed on human organs-kidneys and
>livers-when things turned too bad in the jungle.
>It was Ablie Sonko and Yaya Drammeh who went looking
>for Kukoi in a refugee village in Ivory Coast. They
>were also looking for what they said should equal to
>$2million Tailor should have paid Kukoi for their
>service. Kukoi was eventually found who seemed to be
>smarter than all of them.
>He gave them the impression that he was looking for
>them too for the final operation they were preparing
>for all these years, the attack to overthrow The
>Gambia government. He identified with all of them in
>their quest to overthrow any government of the day in
>The Gambia, Jawara's or Jammeh's. Then he gave them
>the perfect news they never dreamt of. That Senegal
>was going to finance and support the attack in The
>Gambia.
>This is where the rebel's story became conflicting
>with that of Yaya's. It however seemed that Kukoi drew
>an intelligent plan which end up eliminating all those
>nuisance but dangerous rebels he trained and did not
>know what to do with them. Since they were asking for
>their pay, which Kukoi could not afford in anyway, he
>dragged them to Senegal where he got rid of almost all
>of them.
>  At the middle of May 1996, all seventeen of them
>abandoned their wives, kids and fighting teams in
>Liberia and headed to Senegal via Mali.  At
>Tambacounda, they split up leaving some of them in a
>small hotel in the town. Another group was left at
>Sokone village and kukoi stayed in Wokam Dakar.
>According to the rebels, Kukoi regularly visited
>General Wane's office in Dakar often accompanied by
>Yaya Drammeh and Swanding Camara. But Yaya Drammeh had
>also made it clear that they had never been allowed to
>attend the one to one meeting between General Wane and
>Kukoi. That they had always waited at the lobby
>downstairs while Kukoi was escorted alone upstairs. At
>the end of their meeting Kukoi would come down, gave
>them their feeding allowances which he said was from
>the general and told them to return to Sokone.
>In the meantime those at Tambacounda were looking for
>weapons in the wrong place, at the Senegalese military
>camp in town. They got in touch with a corporal who
>was working in the camp's armory. They were introduced
>to this man through a marabou. For a machine gun they
>were asked to pay five hundred thousand CFA. One of
>them went to Dakar and told Kukoi about it. Kukoi
>offered three hundred thousand, which the corporal
>accepted after tough negotiations.
>Anyway at the last moment to consummate the deal with
>the corporal the Senegalese secret agents surprisingly
>appeared and arrested all of them.
>Yaya Drammeh who was monitoring the activities of
>those at Tambacounda brought the matter to the
>attention of Kukoi.
>For a while they did not know what to do but the
>visits to General Wane's office ended immediately.
>Few days after however Kukoi proposed to them a
>terrorist plan to hijack a train in Senegal and ask
>for the release of their friends as conditions of
>freeing it and any hostages they may capture.
>Or as an alternative plan they could attack Farafenni
>Barracks seize the camp and call the international
>community to mediate for the release of their friends
>in Senegal. They went for the last.
>In September 1996, Kukoi provided them with gas
>sprays, and two or three small .22 caliber handguns.
>They came up to Farafenni one night but decided to
>abort the mission on the pretext of the poor fighting
>equipment at their disposal.
>They went back to Senegal just to realize that Kukoi
>had packed up all his belongings and was about to
>leave finally.  Kukoi told them that Taylor called him
>to go and get some money and equipment for the attack
>to The Gambia. He gave them a telephone number where
>he could be reached after his arrival. Three days
>later, they tried the number. It never existed.
>Swanding Camara decided to take the bull by the horns
>by going to General Wane's office to find out what was
>going on. As soon as he was announced, he got arrested
>and taken straight to "San Meter"  where he was locked
>up until his extradition in 1997.
>There were only eight of them left in a land they now
>viewed as enemy territory. They met and decided to
>vote Kukoi out as their leader, electing Ablie Sonko
>in his position. The blueprints on the attack to
>Farafenni were redrafted for November 8, 1996. The
>original copy was in Yaya's drawer at the state house.
>Six innocent soldiers were waiting to be murdered
>senselessly.
>The press conference following the capture of the
>rebels is quite detail. The videocassette should be
>available at GRTS. And as I said earlier many people
>have it in their home collections.  It should be able
>to help anyone searching for extra information on this
>subject. I also strongly recommend it to the
>Independent News publishers for reference on this
>issue.
>However, July 21st, 1997, former GNA soldiers who had
>been living in Cassamance since that November 11, 1994
>so-called counter coup incident also attacked Kartong
>camp.
>Two GNA soldiers were killed in that attack.  Three of
>the four attackers were captured and interrogated
>before being handed over to the police for trial. They
>had been living in a Senegalese military camp as
>refugees for that whole period where international
>humanitarian groups assisted most of their friends. A
>good number of them were given refugee status in
>western countries of their choices. But four of
>them-Lieutenants Bah, Jarju and Jammeh and Sergeant
>Joof decided to attack Kartong camp. The Senegalese
>government had no prior knowledge of the attack but
>they were genuinely embarrassed this time.
>The following week, Yaya one day invited all the
>members of his top security advisers in his office and
>announced that Abdou Joof had offered to hand over the
>rebels arrested in Tambacouda in 1996.
>As far as I was concerned there was no longer any
>importance about this men since it was a case that
>Yaya did not want to deal with in anyway. Samsudeen
>Sarr was then a major and the deputy army commander.
>Sankung Badjie was the deputy inspector general of
>police. Both men volunteered to lead the troops going
>for the rebels who were considered highly dangerous.
>At 4.00 am the next morning, the task force drove to
>Dakar and came back with the men at dusk the same day.
>They were six in number. Two were missing. The
>Senegalese said those two were Senegalese nationals.
>As soon as they arrived at the ferry terminal the men
>were handed over to the Interior Ministry who took
>them to Mile Two prison. That was the last time they
>were seen or heard about until recently when they
>started causing political confusion, thanks to the
>crazy Jammeh administration.. They were well treated
>on the way, given food and spoken to freely.
>The prison system is run differently.  I might
>highlight our experiences there and the torture we
>suffered there.
>I hope I was a fairly good source of information to
>the Independent Reporters!
>
>
>Ebou Colly
>
>
>
>
>
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