Thanks a bunch Joe. I really appreciate it.
Pa
Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Pa, please try [log in to unmask]
Chi Jaama
Joe
>From: KangKangBa
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>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Foroyaa's editorial email address!
>Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 08:13:57 -0700
>
>Could any one help me with Foroyaa's editorial email address please?
>
> God Bless!
> -Pa
>
>panderry mbai
wrote:
> Thanks brother Sidebeh for the powerful piece. Well said.
>
>Momodou S Sidibeh wrote: Brothers Joe and Moe,
>
>I am sure you both know you speak for most of us. I do not know whether or
>not there was a coup attempt. But indeed, the fact of it is almost
>irrelevant to the barrage of abuse the population is still being subjected
>to by the powers that be. Unfortunately even the opposition politicians
>seem
>to acquiesce in the farrago of nonsense spewing from those corrupting
>newsies. And there is nothing as saddening!
>
>Condemning coups, real or imagined, is fashionable these days all over
>Africa. From the African Union boss to the last Alkali in town, everyone
>must reject and condemn coups, even if only to ward off ghosts of suspicion
>of possible complicity that may eventually haunt you. The AU sanction
>against coups is indeed an important milestone in African politics. But it
>must also be recognised that the outright rejection of coups - which we
>should all applaud - nevertheless, provides a field day for tyrants and
>frenzied dictators. Since they theoretically fear no coups d'etat, they
>quickly start constructing personal republics of fear that they rule and
>rule until they die. The AU's checking mechanism provides no counterweight
>to the sinister designs of said tyrants and dictators. It ought also to
>have
>insisted that African Constitutions include limits to presidential terms in
>office: probably the best insurance policy against useless military coups;
>coups that have ravaged societies all over West Africa.
>
>So while we understand the quick condemnation of the purported coup from
>our
>politicians, and while offering no excuses for the alleged plotters; they
>could have insisted that term limits to the presidency make for a wiser
>national securtiy policy than the president's blood-curdling threats of
>setting unforgettable examples! Again!
>
>Liberation and democracy do not come by special delivery, either from god
>or
>Yaya. It comes through struggle for basic rights, such as the right to
>protest against injustice. But even this fundamental right of all human
>communities on earth, our politicians have conceded to Yaya. Not even
>Halifa
>wants to defend that right! And so the unfailing logic of the evolution of
>the Gambian struggle for democracy follows a path as predictable as
>clockwork.
>A government minister is killed, soldiers disappear, school children are
>then massacred, numbers of civilans are killed by soldiers, a lawyer
>survives an assasination attempt while a prominent journalist is murdered.
>Except for other journalists, no one protests phyiscally in the country.
>Violent deaths and disappearances and bloody threats become the regimes
>staple diet. Its terror police, euphemistically called the NIA, employs
>refined methods of harassment and torture: they pick up people in the cover
>of darkness, and dump them into unknown detention centres. When the police
>claim no knowledge of these detainees, fear creeps into the psyche of
>family
>members and friends. A litany of unanswered or answereable question flood
>the mind: where is my husband, did they kill him? Is he sleeping well? Is
>he
>being fed? Rumour mills mushroom as NIA spies and informers multiply.
>Suddenly no one knows who is a spy or who is no spy. First it was no
>protest. Now it is no anti-Jammeh talk. The circulation of bad news assumes
>internet speed. Any tiny sound of gunfire or something send mothers and
>sisters nervously running for their kids at schools.
>
>This is nothing short of a campaign of terror; and terrorism when
>orchestrated by a state on a tired and tried population has only one
>purpose: to create fear. But why is the state bent on creating a climate of
>fear? To cause paralysis. So no one does a thing. And in their fear, people
>would wish for peace, a peace that they think possible if they vote for
>Jammeh or pray to god; and so we summon another five years of darkness, and
>uncertainty and death and sorrow. Another five years of pain for our
>beloved
>journalists at the Independent.
>
>Cheers,
>sidibeh
>
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