Lameen:
Its healthy for you to differ with me i compliment you for that. My criteria
can't be sub standard because you happen to see it that way.
In any situation there most be a way of monitoring that situation.During
the campaign,whatever that might have transpired,be it impartial access to
the public media,threats and intimidations of voters,the opposition should
not have compromised or be negligent about it.They should have protested to
have it stopped or boycott the process.Many on this list have encourage the
opposition to boycott if they deem the process flawed.
I am not in the business of judging after the fact. If the circumstances
that you alluded to prevailed,why didn't the opposition protest vehemently
even to the extent of boycotting the elections.Why did they continue to
participate in this farce process as you describe it? The opposition ,that
is all of them,said in their concession that it was free and fair why should
i see it otherwise.I forwarded lots of articles and reports to the list but
despite the contents,the opposition on the ground declared the election to
be generally free and fair.My interpretation of this declaration of the
election as free and fair is that despite some hitches here and there,it is
generally accepted and same view was conveyed by international observers and
people that i spoke to back home.That is not to say that it was perfect but
generally accepted.With this cross section of opinions all pointing to more
or less the same conclusion that the elections was free and fair,i do not
see how i can contradict that.Help me if you can Lamin.
Beran
>From: Lameen Sisawo Barrow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:14:25 -0500
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>Beran
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>I beg to differ with some of the points you raised in your
>post. Having forwarded so many news articles on issues in The
>Gambia, I am wondering if you have taken the time to read all
>those articles. You call this farce of an election free and
>fair? I am at a lost for words. If this election meets your
>criteria, then you have very low standards where "free and fair"
>is the criteria. One does not have to live in The Gambia to
>know that People have been intimidated, bribed and harrashed by
>APRC thugs. Even the resident Jaliba of APRC, Tombong, will not
>say that equal time was accorded to all political parties. This
>election was just another front to legitimize the APRC.
>
>Alagie Barrow
>
>Nashville TN
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