Yaya has again blatantly blamed the victims of the massacre of April 10 and 11 for that callous and unfortunate event. Instead of showing remorse for what happened and blaming himself and his security forces, he heaped all the blame on the students and so called 'detractor' that 'instigated' the students. To nobody's surprise, Yaya cannot name a single person that might have instigated the students. Instead he made this reckless innuendo for the consumption of the commission of inquiry looking into the massacre of our children and for the consumption of the international community. I strongly feel that his comments were not meant for ordinary Gambian folks. The ordinary people in The Gambia (as demonstrated by Saul Jobarteh) know that the students acted on their own accord. The students are smart enough and decent enough to know that covering up rape and murder is wrong. They do not need any 'detractors' to tell them that or to tell them to go and demonstrate against that. It is pathetic that Yaya will stand before an international audience and claimed total innocence for what happened on April 10 and 11 and instead blamed the victims for their murders. We hope that the commission takes these statements for what they are, i.e. blatant lies and excuses. The people Yaya is pointing fingers to as 'detractors' should be on their guard and challenge Yaya to back his lies with evidence. They should not tolerate this innuendo. The commission and any future judge in this matter should be warned. We are closely watching them and would not allow such extraneous matters to influence their decision. Yaya did not go before the commission to utter such lies, and knowing the coward, he will not come before a court to repeat this nonsense. So Yaya's irrational rattling should not be part of any legal dispensation of this matter. What he said just goes to show the insensitivity of this regime to the plight of ordinary Gambians. They murder our children in broad day light and then have the cowardice to deny it and instead blame the victims. This regime should know that they are their own enemies and detractors. Bullets were not fired from the students' side or from the skies by non-existent 'detractors'. The shots came from Yaya's own security forces that were acting under his orders. So long as they continue spreading lies, we would not be tied of saying this and we will continue in our resolve to make sure that Yaya pays for these crimes. But am glad that at least we are getting somewhere. At least Yaya knows that what they did to the students on those fateful days was wrong. That is why he has decided to lie about his role in this massacre. But we promise Yaya that we will get to the bottom of this one. When we say that no stone will be left unturned, we mean what we say. Yaya's speech writer must have a very sorry life. All the evil they try to portray lead straight to Yaya. Imagine hearing the following rhetoric from the moron about the commitment of his government: "commitment to maintain peace and stability, our detractors are relentlessly determined to undermine our efforts and are constantly working to disrupt, destabilise and plunge this beautiful, peaceloving and blessed country into chaos." These people have no shame. These statements are coming from someone that has sanctioned the murder of numerous Gambians, including children. What happened on April 10 and 11 had never happened before in our country. There were student demonstrations during the Jawara regime. No bullets were fired and no one was murdered. It is under Yaya's watch that that happened in The Gambia. The moron does not even have the decency to admit responsibility and console the families of the victims. Instead he is grand-standing in front of Libyan and Bissau diplomats blaming the children and some imaginary detractors. This man should be gotten rid of forthwith. KB ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------