NEWS  STGDP Takes Issue With Jammeh Again -As it Dispatches Protest Letter to the Gambian Envoy in DC  BY PA NDERRY M'BAI

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December 3, 2005
Save The Gambia Democracy Project, is hitting hard on the Jammeh administration, as it accuses the regime of provoking the opposition in a bid to cause civil unrest in the tiny West African country. In a letter addressed to The Gambian ambassador in Washington DC, Bami Jagne, STGDP expresses the need for the Jammeh government to respect the rights and freedoms of Gambians. It also condemns the arrest of NADD officials. Below is the full text of the STGDP letter, sent to ambassador Jagne. Please read on....

The Save The Gambia Democracy Project (STGDP), the Movement for Democracy and Development, the Movement for Restoration of Democracy in The Gambia, and many other Gambian associations, and well wishers, join the people of Gambia and the rest of the international community in passionately condemning, in the strongest sense of the word, the arrest of Omar Amadou Jallow (OJ) and Hamat Bah, and Honorable Halifah Sallah of the National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD).

We understand that these spurious allegations of sedition and retention of government documents against Halifa, OJ and Hamat are the threats President Yaya Jammeh promised to deliver in his end of Ramadan speech to the Muslim Elders, in which he alluded to the fact that he was going to ensure that most of the opposition leaders will not be around for the 2006 elections. We can say without a doubt that being leaders of a political coalition that has the potential to unseat the APRC government in the impending general elections in 2006, OJ, Hamat, and Halifah have other things on their minds other than engaging in subversive activity against the government.

The NADD leaders, albeit President Jammeh's massive usurpation of the judicial powers, have always opted to go through the legal system. They have endured countless threats, harassment, abductions, torture, and various forms of violations of their civil and human rights, and that of their colleagues and loved ones; but have never resorted to any illegal means. Instead, they have continued to refrain from anything that may plunge the Gambia into civil unrest and brought their complaints to the attention of the legal and international community. These are loving sons, and daughters, of the Gambia, who have made countless sacrifices in their fight to bring about a democratic Gambia.

Furthermore, every well meaning observer of Gambian politics will attest to the fact that Hon. Sallah is not the type that will flee arrest contrary to the press release issued on Gambia Radio and Television. Hence, this latest series of arrests is but another one of your government's endless trampling of the rights of Gambians and of those who refuse to turn-a-blind-eye to their numerous despotic activities. We are hereby letting President Jammeh know, through your offices, that we hold very seriously, his stated threats to the opposition, during his end of Ramadan speech and these recent arrests of NADD leaders. We also hereby state that from this day forward, we are resolved to take all actions necessary to ensure that President Jammeh and his junta will be held accountable for any, and all, actions that violate the civil and human rights of individuals or the constitution, and for all illegal government mandated activities by the security forces or other agents of the regime. WE
 WILL NEVER BE SILENCED.

Signed

Save The Gambia Democracy Project.


STGDP can be contacted at:
P.O. Box 48321
Doraville, GA 30362
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