Brother Momodou Camara,

I finally heard on National Public Radio this evening that Bush has now sent
an appeal to Charles Taylor to step down after Liberians started laying out
the dead infront of the U.S embassy in Monrovia.

This is why we have to take it with a grain of salt when it is declared that
bringing democracy and human rights to the people is the reason the U.S and
Britain send armies out to wage war. It is either "selective compassion" when it
comes to Africa,  as someone I heard on the radio yesterday put it, or self
interest. Either way, African lives do not seem to be as precious as the lives
of others; Perhaps if the oil that is rumoured to be in the belly of the earth
along the West African coast is really there, we will become suddenly
prescious, but  i shudder to imagine what puppet regimes in Africa propped up by the
oil companies and the U.S will do to our people. It will make our current
dictators on the continent angels compared to those that will be installed and
backed.

Jabou Joh

n a message dated 6/26/03 3:46:09 PM Central Daylight Time,
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>      "Everybody in the world is sitting to watch us die," a
>      refugee, Suah Kolli, cried at Monrovia's John F. Kennedy
>      hospital where 200 wounded brought in by midday Wednesday
>      overflowed the hospital's wards and lay sprawled, moaning and
>      bleeding, in slippery hallways. (Associated Press, June 26,
>      2003).
>
> Despite a cease-fire brokered in West African-mediated peace talks
>

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