Yaya Jammeh has criminalized all sectors of Gambian society. The regime has induced a state of fear into our people. There is massive erosion of human rights in our country since the unfortunate events of July 1994 and most of the crimes are with impunity. The daily life of our people is on the edge. Gambia will continue to be a sad story among the wretched countries in Black Africa as long as we have a butcher dragging our people into the time of butcher bird, such as the illegal arrests and detentions without trials, torture, murder etc. The criminal regime has destroyed the independence of the judiciary with army of his mercenary judges and lawyers who have no professional ethics.
   
  The closer of Independent media outlets, and the illegal arrests, detentions and killing of journalists have effected press freedom in our country. Recently many human rights crimes inflicted on our citizens are not reported in the media because the independent press is none functioning. As days pass-by, the families of Ndongo Mboob, Buba Sanyang and Momodou Lamin Nyassi wanted to know whether their love ones are alive or death. Equally questions remain unanswered as to the whereabouts of his own family members and trusted friends and this include Haruna Jammeh, Jalamang Jammeh, Gishacha Kujabi and Marcelli Badjie. All these men hail from Foni Kansalla district. Who were his strong supporters, picked from their homes since on the 11th April 2006 around late midnight by men believed to be members of National intelligence Agent. With repression, Gambia continues to be a police state and the masses of our people are daily living under fear. Every Gambian feels that their
 movements and daily activities, including e-mail messages and telephones are monitored by the secret police just like what happened during the communist era in the former Eastern European countries.
   
  The evolution of parliamentary government and rule of law becomes none functional under Yaya Jammeh's rule. The APRC Government continue to have no regard for court orders. I cannot imagine how good academic teachings on constitutional and administrative laws have evaporated in the cranium of my good brother Honourable Sheikh Tijan Hydara who claims that there is a rule of law in the Gambia, at a time when a human rights lawyer Mariam Denton is languishing in jail without charge or trial for days unending. The Secretary of State for Justice claims about rule of law in our country is nothing order than academic dishonesty and a mockery to the legal meaning of the term RULE OF LAW. The writ of habeas corpus is an essential fundamental of rule of law and it protects citizens under English law against unlawful invasion of personal liberty. The coming of Yaya Jammeh has nullified the regard for the civil liberties of our people.
   
  There are well documented evidences that the regime of Yaya Jammeh have blood in their hands. All the crimes which are committed under the name of so-called national security will one day be clear to Gambian people like sunrise and sunset on the sky. The regime has yet to explain the circumstances in the mysterious death of, Ousman Koro Ceesay, Deyda Hydara, Lt Saye, Lt Sadibou Hydara, Foday Makalo, Daba Marena, Lt Ebrima Ceesay, Lt Dot Faal, Lt Almamo Manneh, Corporal Dumbuya etc. Many who know Yaya Jammeh postulate of his very brutal, arrogant, paranoid and stressful characteristics, one wanders whether he is mentally stable. According to my source who is a member of Jammeh's family, it is that paranoia that he murdered many decent Gambians and has now resorted to his close relatives and members of his own family.
   
  The extra judiciary execution of Lt Basirou Barrow and many soldiers of Gambia National Army on November 11, and the investigative report of BBC Focus on Africa programme drew a logical conclusion of the events as a coup that never happened: and the cross fires that the regime peddled on Radio Gambia, to justify their actions between the sections of so-called coup plotters and so-called loyal soldiers was untrue because there was no structural damage to the buildings and other facilities in Fajara and Yundum barracks. The event was nothing order than a plan murder of some senior army officials and personnel who were a threat to the regime because of their tribal and other social backgrounds. It was those revelations that the treason trials of Lt Lamin Jarju, Lt Lamin Jammeh and private Bah were held in camera to deny the public consumption of the facts about the events of November 11, all in the name of national security matters.
   
  The brutal killings of Gambian students in April 2000 and indemnity given to the killers further justify the involvement of the regime to such inhumane acts. The lies peddled by the propaganda mercenaries of the regime including Former Secretaries of State Sarjo Jallow and Therese Jatta etc which most Gambian did not buy was that some elements of the students were armed with guns that were used to gun down others. The blame factors was also extended to the element of the opposition parties by dishonest elites who collaborated with the criminal regime in the act; many of whom left public office in disgrace and they will remain isolated on issues of our national politics for their unethical and immoral stand to defend the devil for such a crimes. To foster their selfish interest in the name of classical case of intellectual prostitution they began to frame decent Gambians who are not even a party to the killings. What Gambians want to know is who ordered the killings of
 innocent students? Why did the regime indemnify those elements of the security forces who were involved in the crimes?
   
  In the run up to the election in September, with the unpopularity of the regime all over the country, we can smell the rat, that the private militia group of the regime under the command of Modou Pika Jallow and the notorious Police Intervention Unit will be active in suppressing the holding of opposition political rallies and arresting activists. The issuing of the permit order for holding political rallies is unfair and outdated. It vested the powers of issuing permits by Inspector General of Police who recently we have seen being politicised to the core and being his tribes man. These have serious implications to the impartiality of these institutions such as Prison Services, Ministry of Interior, Chief of Defence Staff of the Army etc. In the last days of 2001 Presidential elections, it was reported that the militia group of the regime were involved in the barbaric crimes and the gruesome and brutal murder of Lamin Ceesay at United Democratic Party rally in Tallinding
 and up till now no justice was done for those involved in the crime. Yaya Jammeh has unpopular support in the country and because of that; APRC is heading for an electoral violence as we have seen in the bye election in Kombo East. It is already a strategy in place to further enhance the state of fear, as indications have shown the Independent Electoral Commission is under pressure by the executive without due consultations with other stakeholders.
   
  One wanders how the PPP’s good records of observing human rights and participatory democracy in our country ended up in a dustbin at a time when our continent was re-awakening from sunder? It was those good records of the folding of our Government that our country had the opportunity to be the head quarters of the African Commission on Human rights. It is those inheritance values of Gambian life that Yaya Jammeh and his group of second generation Gambians in uniform have destroyed because of their immoral agenda of envy and get rich quickly. Gambians have seen these demonstrated and illustrated by their quest to dominate all facets of Gambian life, ranging from social justice, good governance and participatory democracy. For Gambia gone are days of Mandingo saying “nimang kukay kutaylaa” ( Meaning rule of law and also the relevance of the statutory significant of Magna Carta in the English legal history to personal liberty).
   
  It is clear to all Gambians that the cold blooded killers in Banjul framed their horrendous crimes in any form because of their control of the mass media and all its apparatus. It is only in the matter of truth and reconciliation that truth will be exposed in restored democratic values.  At that moment it is for those who have ears to hear!!

 		
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