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Ebou, once again thanks for maintaining your ignorance and please do keep it
flowing.

Joe Sambou


>From: Ebou Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: NEW ILLEGAL 50 DALASIS NOTES IN CIRCULATION
>Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:52:03 EDT
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>Ousainou Ngum, Isatou Badjie and all other sincere Jolas,
>
>I never in anyway imply anything negative towards the Jolas as a group.  I
>think you people are blowing the phrase out of context.  No single sincere
>Jola has any reason to be alarmed. All I am saying is that ethnocentric
>Jola
>nationalism as professed by some factions of the MFDC and fully supported
>by
>Yaya Jammeh and some Jola elites in Senegal is evidently sinister!  Since
>the inception of this Cassamance struggle in the forties by Emile Badiane,
>till his death in early 1970s, the movement had been a legetimate political
>entity.  When in 1982, after the intervention of France, and a thorough
>arbitration, the Sovereignty of Senegal over Cassamance was once again
>confirmed.  Since then Diamacone Senghor politicised the issue that finally
>led to the formation of the various rebel wings, the Attika.  The Attika is
>a very Jola organization and infact they have in the past practiced 'ethnic
>cleansing', mined their sanctuaries which they purport to be "sacred
>forests", raped, tortured and brutalized non-Jola ethnic citizens of the
>Cassamance.  Until I left the AFPRC I know that Yaya was nose deep into
>playing ethnocentric politics since he has an eternal hatred for the
>Mandikas simply because he believes that they are very proud people and
>they
>shall never under any circumstances ever support him.  Again this resulted
>in his initiation of a two prong strategy one a regionalization program to
>gain lattitute to 'develop' the Fonis at the expense of the Gambian state,
>and two to arm his kins folk who has this overarching agenda to create a
>Jola state within Senegal that straddles the Gambia and Guinea Bissau.
>Mr Joe Sambou, let us keep the argument very objective and subdue the
>emotions a little bit.  I am only trying to enlighten people on this forum
>to know what they are currently dealing with in the Gambia.  I have more
>Jola blood in me than you think.
>
>
>Greetings
>
>Ebou Jallow
>
>
>
>
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