Karamba,
I do enjoy your postings. I just wish that your partisanship which makes you
so bias when you judge President Jammeh could atleast be fair enough. The
moment you declared yourself as an opposition party member contesting the
elections, don't you think calling the ruling party names does inspire
"thuggery?" If you are on a campaign trail and calling your oppostion all
sorts of names, what do you thaink that could lead to. Let us talk about
issues, and do all we could to help our nation go forward.
Mr. Touray, if you statrt to talk about what the UDP will do for us a
nation, may be you will get more listeners, but not telling us that they
will come into the streets. Remember, if they fight, they are going to be
fighting Gambians.
Who is the victim here? May be you need to be on the ground and see things
for yourslef. You being here and me being somewhere else to out of the
country and calling for such acts tells one a lot about your mentality.
Oppostion for national interest and for personal interest are different
things. There is certainly not a difference between you and Kukoi.
Come October, President Jammeh is going to win and UDP to be taken by the
PPP and Jawara soon will accept defeat. This October, you will probably come
to your senses more. I wish you could go to the Gambia and see for yourself.

Lamin Ceesay


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>Subject: Re: Defeating The Jammeh Regime(yus)
>Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 15:13:12 EDT
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>Yus,
>        I am not calling for for a calculated unleashing of violence by
>anyone
>especially not the beleaguered Gambian population who have been the only
>victims of the terror directed by this regime. What I am saying is people
>in
>large numbers would not settle for a furtherance of the misery associated
>with this regime when they know they voted for change. Like you I am
>singularly committed to a peaceful political process and that is why I have
>affiliated myself with a party and try to do what I can to participate as a
>citizen. If we agree that this is an incredibly destructive group of people
>who have brought our nation close to ruin, what do you suggest we do if a
>majority of the people are seemingly consigned to irrelevance by the
>refusal
>of this government to lawfully conduct a poll? A right without a remedy is
>not a right at all. If you believe that denying the people a free and fair
>election is a grave violation, I don't know why you would find a legitimate
>attempt by the people to uphold their verdict either troubling or a prelude
>to danger. I agree with you that Kukoi engaged in a criminal and violent
>undertaking primarily on his own behalf for reasons that had nothing to do
>with the welfare of the majority of the Gambian people. I abhor violence
>especially one driven by cruelty and selfishness. If despite all the evil
>this government has done we as a nation cower down in fear of the same
>government attacking us, then our constant call for freedom, justice and
>democracy would ring hallow. Afterall even those governments and entities
>that have stood by the Gambian people and ostracized this terrible regime
>will not do the necessary and potentially risky job of upholding the
>people's
>verdict. It has be us the people vested with the right and paramount
>interest
>to validate our wishes. Like you, I have my entire family back there and I
>sure don't wish them any danger. However neither them nor anyother Gambian
>should forfeit their nation to Yahya and his group of thugs because
>maintaining their dignity and standing up for their rights could entail the
>state attacking them.
>Karamba
>
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