Aunty Jabou

All this business about MASS GRAVES in BANJUL has NOT
been honestly debated.

Whilst, I sympathise with OKO and many other swho
suffered during that brief period of Kukoi's reign of
terror and the PPP's Government inability to crush a
rebellion without the loss of so many lives, I cannot
accept with their analogy that the GRAVE between the
Muslim and Christian Cemetry at MILE I should be seen
as a MASS GRAVE per se.

As mentioned in previous emails, this GRAVE had to be
erected as a precautionary measure. There were so many
Gambians who were killed either by the Rebels or
Loyalist Forces of the PPP regime/ Senegalaise Forces.
The remains of these Gambians were left in the
mortuary with no real hope of finding any relative
that could give them a descent burial under the
prevailing conditions.

It is therefore unfortunate that APRC have tried to
use such a national disaater to castigate the Former
PPP. Whilst, PPP made no secret of a MASS GRAVE for
those who died in the 1981, we are still waiting to
see where the likes of Lt Barrow and many others were
buried after the events of 11 November 1994 and during
other related incidents.

So lets debate this issue in a sincere manner.

By the way, just to inform I have never supported the
PPP government, my points here were made from a
broader perspective.


Thanks
Sanusi


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 --- Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In a message
dated 1/22/04 12:03:14 AM Central
> Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > I wonder why they are concentrating
> > ONLY on mass graves under the first republic, and
> want to ignore the mass
> > graves under their own republic.
>
> Elhadj Mustafa,
>
> They are concentrating on that because they think it
> is a political ploy in
> their favour.
> The APRC regime is foolish enough to believe that
> everytime they are in
> trouble, all they have to do is pull a trick out of
> the first republic accusation
> hat and Gambians will gladly keep them in power
> against their will.
> Let me be clear, the mass murder of Gambians under
> any republic is not
> acceptable, but in recognizing mass graves under the
> Jawara regime, the APRC can
> show their sincerity and at the same time refute
> allegations of the mass graves
> of soldiers murdered under the guise of coup
> attempts and buried behind the
> toilets at the Yundum barracks as alleged by former
> members of the GNA.
> I think that they should go further and let
> independent forensic experts into
> the country to dig up the areas in question and
> conduct some tests to show
> the people that these allegations are either false
> or that they are innocent of
> these acts.
> Now THAT! will be really doing something meaningful.
> We muslims do not put much reverence on the erection
> of monuments to the dead
> because it is infact forbidden by the Sunnah of
> Rasulullah as any learned
> Islamic scholar can confirm. Even graves are not
> supposed to have any structures
> built upon them. Another indication that these
> people are shooting from the
> hip before thinking in the hope of convincing
> people that they are good for us.
> Their actions are akin to one being finely attired
> while their behind is out
> in the open for all to see. Their record is already
> enshrined in the Gambian
> history books, and the more they do, the more they
> will have to pay for those
> deeds.
>
> Jabou Joh
>
>
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