Nordam,
You will never find rhetorics more inflammatory, anachronistic, barbarous
,sulky , uncivilize, childish and frivolous than Yaya's "kuntung kuntung or
six feet deep speech" in the annals of Gambian political utterances. Yaya is
the president of the Gambia and he has the entire public media at his
disposal. Thus if there is need for reconciliation in our beloved country,
it would be more expedient if the initiative comes from him. It is
interesting that you and Mr Jallow want us to forget about his personality
when he represents us everyday, a task to which his personality is of great
importance. It is Yaya Jammeh indeed who should stop insulting Gambian
muslims and persons in opposition. Afterall, he is merely the highest placed
and paid public servant in the country. The Gambia and Gambians dont belong
to him.
I find your insistence that regime change was brought to South Africa
through reconciliation interesting. You seem  to give one the impression
that the situation is that bad. Personally, I am convinced that the APRC
regime, particularly in view of the banditry and brutality it meeted out
against Gambian students on April 10th/11th 2000, is as evil as the racist
regime that was in South Africa.
Finally, your take on "changement/alternance"  in Senegal is absolutely
wrong. I was in that country for two years during which period I interacted
intensely with the human rights fraternity there. This enabled me to study
the build-up to their  change of leardership just before my arrival in
Dakar. Take or leave it, if  the opposition had not made a determined stand
to make sure that there was no electoral fraud, Abdou Joof would not have
left. I recommend you both try to read the book written by general Lamin
Ceesay, the then minister of the interior of Senegal.
Omar Joof.


>From: Asbjørn Nordam <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Halifa Sallah Says President Jammeh
>Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:37:19 +0200
>
>Mr. Ebou Jallow,
>please for my information, what is it again that Jammeh want the opposition
>to reconcile. I can not remember. Is it a specific act, is it something in
>general? I remember that he after the re- election  "asked for" the
>political debate to be finished for now. I thought he meant until next
>election and maid a comment on this list, that politics should not only be
>around election, but mostly all year round. Is it that speech you refer to,
>when you talk about the invitation for reconciliation?
>You are right that inflammatory rhetoric is regressive, and all people, not
>only in The Gambia or in politics should learn from that.
>Asbjørn Nordam
> >
> > The "opposition" will be taken seriously if and only if they respond to
> > Jammeh's call for reconciliation.  Empty threats and imflammatory
> > rhetorics is regressive and an anachronistic throwback to a bygone
> > era.  They should approach Jammeh with sincerity and forget about his
> > personality.  It is the political culture, stupid NOT Yaya Jammeh( as
> > the US slang goes). It is reconcialiation that ended the Apartheid
> > regime and not the Umkatha guerrilla movement.  It is reconcialition
> > that reintegrated democratic party politics in Ghana and Senegal NOT
> > the politics of vengeance.
>
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