Karamba,
         The reaction of the secretary of state for foreign affairs to the
European union's declaration is not only factious nonsense but also reveals
his selfishness and lack of credibility.his statement is unfortunate and
outrageous in calling the EU statement''failed to realize that there is no
country where somebody is charged or accused for murder and yet allowed to
be bail''.The secretary of state for foreign affairs was to mislead both The
Gambian people and the international community which he has miserably failed
to do.It is a matter of fact that the APRC Government continued to liar to
the Gambian people and to the whole world that they are committed to
democracy and rule of law but not.
The EU knows very well the APRC regime the symbol of oppression is now
interfering in every aspect of gambian life-persecuting,harassing and
intimidating civil society and UDP supporters and sympathisers by every
possible means available to it.Even when the high court judge Yassin Sey
made an order that the continuous detention of Modou [Dumo] and others was
unconstitutional, the executive quickly and clandestinely rushed to appeal
in order to secure process to justify the detention when initially they
refused responsibility of holding them.Mr.Jobe should be ashamed to be
associated with the present climate of brutality where killing,torture and
wonton slaughter is the order of the day.
UDP will continue to condemn any act of brutality and unconstitutional
behavior.
  I call on all human rights organizations who care for human dignity to
exert maximum pressure on the undemocratic APRC Government as to ensure
safety of all of the detainees and go and visit them to ascertain the degree
of physical and moral torture inflicted on Modou [Dumo] and others who are
kept incommunicado.
I am  appealing to The Gambia red cross society and all human rights
organizations in thee Gambia to visit them.

Long live a free and democratic Gambia !
Down with dictatorship !

Saihou



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>Subject: SoS Sedat Jobe.
>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:30:02 EDT
>
>There he was in a three-piece suit professing both suprise and outrage at
>the
>European Union statement that essentially called on the murderous
>government
>for whom he is the chief diplomat to stop it's Gestapo tactics of gross
>human
>rights violations. With a straight face Sedat Jobe accused the victims of
>his
>government's thuggery and lawlessness as the one's who provoke the inhumane
>treatment meted out to them. As usual for regimes such as his, he tries to
>shamelessly revert to their own silly notions of sovereignty and national
>independence in a bid to rationalize government initiated terror on
>innocent
>civilians. True to the traditions of other tyrannies, Sedat Jobe wants the
>EU
>or the rest of the world to refrain from calling them the evil that they
>are.
>He  even went as far as saying his government ought to be commended for
>countenancing a bail for Lawyer Darboe and his supporters on the ridiculous
>charges they have trumped up. Knowing fully well that he cannot take issue
>with the facts and premise of the EU statement, he tried to blame the
>severity of the tone on the EU representative . Has Sedat Jobe gone mad?
>What
>does he expect the diplomat to do? The EU is not at all interested in being
>in the good graces of a government as manifestly abhorrent as his. They are
>running a brutal dictatorship and that is what is going to be reflected on
>assessments by people who are sent by sovereign entities to do exactly
>that.
>They had a similar attitude when the US State department also released a
>devastating report earlier this year. He also tries to blame the opposition
>for their tarnished image overseas. My only regret is the opposition is not
>doing more to alert the international community about the endless
>atrocities
>this government is committing on a daily basis. We must redouble our
>efforts
>to further ensure the isolation of this rogue and criminal government at
>least through the very limited time the people of Gambia have to suffer
>their
>misrule.
>       Sedat Jobe for his part is your quintessential African who inspite
>of a
>fine education, would do anything including rationalizing murder,
>abductions,
>torture and even forment chaos if  he can personally benefit from from such
>evil. The only thing driving his incessant defence of a regime he clearly
>knows is destroying our country and subjecting our people to never ending
>cruelty is a strong desire to get money and privileges. To that end no cost
>is too high for the likes of Sedat Jobe. He will go to his grave an
>unfulfilled man regardless of all the material gains he is angling for.
>That
>is true for all crooks and men than that engage in the perpetration of
>evil.
>
>Karamba
>
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