thanks yus,this is what we need to do. We need to start taking ACTION
now.There is no time to procrastinate.
>From: Yusupha Jow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Gambia Has Lost Her Innocence (some snippets)
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:58:47 EDT
>
>Mr Gassama, I would like to piggy back on your post to add a few additional
>news tidbits that the BBC's Network Africa has reported. As Ebrima Ceesay
>confirmed earlier, the unrest has now spread to the provinces. There have
>been reports of students going on the rampage in Janjanbureh and Farafenni.
>In Janjanbureh, especially, government property has again been destroyed.
>
>On the casualty figures, the BBC' s reporter in Banjul, Ebrima Sillah, said
>that he visited the mortuary in Banjul and was told by at least 12
>different
>parents that they had lost their loved ones. One particularly moving
>interview with a Sierra Leonean immigrant who lost his son almost drove me
>to
>tears.
>
>Mr. Sillah, further said that the Gambian public is confused about the
>spate
>of events. Not because the students rioted, but about why the security
>forces
>would shoot innocent children? Meanwhile, all parents in the Kombos have
>been cautioned to keep their kids at home.
>
>I would like to add that for those of you questioning why the students
>rioted
>and those making excuses for the stupid brutes who are directly responsible
>for the killings, there is only so much that the human spirit can take
>before
>unrest happens. We have seen it time and time again in history. These
>students were smart enough to realize that Ebrima Barry's death was a
>manifestation of a much larger problem that the country was facing,
>incompetence, indifference and just a state of affairs that had spiraled
>out
>of control due to the barbaric rule of a mad semi-illiterate despot.
>
>But I assure you that they did not die in vain. All the school kids that
>died yesterday, including the three year old boy that also got shot down,
>are
>martyrs who died fighting for basic human rights and decency in our
>country.
>Let us never forget them.
>
>The time has come for a collective action. Let us take action quickly and
>put all these plans that have been suggested into motion.
>
>Yus
>
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