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Dagmar Christensen
>From: "astrid christensen-tasong" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Soffie asked:.....Why just Women?
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:27:53 GMT
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>Prince,
>
>Thank you for having such confidence and appointing me as a member of The
>Prince O'Brien Coker Gambia-L commission of inquiry. You can rest assure
>that I'm up to the task and we will indeed come up with credible reports as
>our Chairman, Mr Fye put it and not rubber stamp and straddle the fence!
>We Need and Must Have Justice for all especially our students/children in
>The Gambia!
>
>On that note, I'm urging all to participate in the march/demonstration this
>Saturday, May 27, 2000 to denouce and express our outrage at the human
>rights violations and murders in The Gambia, and to let the whole world
>know of The Butcher of Kanilai and the misery he's imposed on our people
>since he's been in power. The march will convene at 1:30 P.M at The
>Gambian Embassy, 1155 15th Street, NW and conclude at the Malcolm X Park in
>Adams Morgan, 16th & Euclid in Washington, DC.
>
>Let's all translate our Vision to Action!!!
>
>YAYA MUST GO!!!
>
>Astrid/
>
>P.S. Is anyone else having the same problem I'm having? I've been trying
>to send for three days but never received a confirmation!
>
>
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>Gambia-L,
>Those of you in the computer know-all world are quite aware of the saying
>that
>"If speed kills, Windows users will live forever. " I took a day off, the
>whole
>day on Wednesday, to attend to some important private matters (and
>Gambia-L),
>but when I put my system on, I was informed that a certain General has
>interfered with some modules in my computer. I have never met General
>Protection
>Fault, in person, although I have heard a lot about him. I thought that the
>GNA
>has sent one of their top brasses to my computer, but after hauling my PC
>inside
>out, I discovered that General Protection Fault is the pseudonym of Bill
>Gates.
>I really wanted to sue him, but after reading my seven-page END-USER
>LICENSE
>AGREEMENT, the so-called EULA, I decided to leave Bill Gates "trankill" and
>go
>after the demon and his zombies: Yaya Jemus Jammeh and his dacoits.
>
>I was only "grounded" for about 58 hours but all the mails from Tuesday
>evening
>to date were safely delivered. The one that really caught my eye was that
>of
>Sister Soffie Ceesay replying to Tombong's piece about the composition of A
>Commission Of Inquiry. Her two-question two-liner is something that might
>be an
>oversight to most of us, but it is really worth treating. Only Soffie knows
>why
>she asked the question ".why just men?". To most of us the reason or answer
>is
>apparent, for NO true, real Gambian woman would want to be in the cast of
>Yaya's
>pantomime. Most Gambian men reading this will, inwardly, agree with me that
>the
>most venerable people in the Gambia are the women. We do not say or show it
>because of the universal masculine psychic deficiency, that we men, the
>world
>over, have always been suffering from.
>The average Gambian man sees a Gambian woman as an extension of his mother.
>The
>degree of respect can never be diminished when it comes to a "Tanta",
>"Yumpagne"
>or "Barjen". We even give these appellations to women who are not related
>to us.
>Ya Amie, Ya Awa, and Na Khaddy are no more than neighbours to me, but I am
>bound
>by their virtuous integrity and the respect I have for my own mother to
>call
>them so. However, it must be stated that there are limitations to these
>extensions. The woman in question must maintain an impeccable integrity for
>her
>to attain the esteem we have for our mother. When a woman fails in her duty
>as a
>mother and lacks the compassion and maternal properties associated with
>motherhood, then that woman (generic) loses all esteem and veneration
>accorded
>to women. This is a fact that all Gambian men, including Yaya Jammeh, will
>attest to. A true, real and virtuous Gambian Woman is always guaranteed of
>our
>admiration.
>
>The reason that there are no women in the Commission could be searched for
>in
>two suppositions either:
>
>(1) The She-devils must have convinced Yaya not to include any woman in it.
>(2) Or some women were approached to be in the Commission, but they
>declined.
>
>I am 100% sure that the second conjecture is the reason. The planned
>activity of
>the Jammeh machinery, to mobilise Gambian women to a "Million Moms March",
>is a
>clear indication that the true Gambian women have turned their
>backs...(Jutoo,
>in other words) on Jammeh and anybody associated with him. Thus leaving it
>with
>the women of the second category mentioned above. They know that the iron
>is
>getting
>hotter and hotter under Jammeh's "seat", so some women without satisfactory
>maternal virtues are attempting to entice other women with false
>information to
>rally around Jammeh. I think what these people are celebrating is what Saul
>Khan
>called "countdown to the last days of an era". It is just 40 days after the
>massacre of children and women are planning a celebration. This shows what
>type
>of women we are dealing with here.
>
>The idea Soffie's piece gave me was to set-up our own Commission on
>Gambia-L
>with
>more women than men. For the chairmanship of this Commission I had two
>people in
>mind, Madiba and Kebba Dampha, but I have fired them before they were
>informed
>of the post. This I have done in accordance with Jammeh's practice.
>
>The Gambia-L Commission of Inquiry is comprise of 8 people whose duty is to
>report on the massacre of children for demonstrating on 10 and 11 April
>2000. I
>have therefore selected and "sworn in" the following:
>Soffie Ceesay
>Jabou Joh
>Ndey Jobarteh
>Astrid Christensen-Tasong
>Mineratou Loum
>Solomon Njai
>Dagma Christensen
>Alhaji Mustapha "Bawdor" Fye will chair the commission. He is selected to
>chair
>the Commission because he has 3 (Three) hearts. One good heart, one bad
>heart
>and the only person I know in this world with a No-nonsense heart.
>
>Cheers
>
>Prince Coker
>
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