I know am not motivated my hate when I advocate the overthrow of Yaya by any
means necessary. On the contrary, am motivated by a strong sense of justice.
Trying to deal with these people while adhering to norms of civilized people
just breed the kind of turmoil we experienced on April 10. What is more
constitutional and law abidding than the demonstration organized by the
students on that day??? what did they get in return???? I understand your
principled stand of none violence. But this principle has to be balanced
with the reality on the ground in Gambia. Yaya robbed the last elections in
broad daylight and nothing came out of it. Children stand up for their
constitutional rights and they are gunned down .....do you want us to go on
this path for the next 30 years????? Like I said before, after Yaya, we can
put structures in place to ensure that things like this never happen again.
If Yaya gets away with this someone else will repeat it ...and believe me
....in my book he would be pulling a fast one on all Gambians if we allow
him to rob us dry and then go retire in Kanilai immune from prosecution for
his gruesome crimes. My thing is ...even if you don't want to support the
ideas espoused by Colly, don't condemn him ....we should get rid of Yaya by
any means necessary .....same goes for any military leader that gets rid of
Yaya and then want to entrench himself into power.
>From: Rene Badjan <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: SOLDIERS OF THE GAMBIA ARMY
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:43:25 EDT
>
> It is amazing that people hated this government with so much passion,
>that we can entertain this kind of violent recourse to take over power. It
>should happen once, but not twice. From the experiences in other places,
>and
>even what has transpired in our country, we should not condone or take such
>threats lightly. If Gambians want their country to degenerate into another
>sorrow situation as the likes of Liberia and Sierra Leone, we should then
>be
>apologetic to this kind of destablizing public statements, and publicly
>instilling fear in the hearts of the Gambian people. It is a psychological
>warfare which can explode in our face, and mirred our country into an
>irredeemable catastrophe. We were lucky once, but cannot count on being
>lucky
>again.
>
> Let us all try to convince ourselves, that the best approach to bring
>change and lasting peace in our beautiful country, is only through
>constitutional means. This is the only way. Let us trust the Gambian
>people,
>that when the time has come for them to change their government, they
>surely
>will. Let no one try to act for them, or on their behalf. As long as it may
>take, they are bound eventually to make the right choices.
>
> Rene
>
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