Another issue that should make Gambians repudiate Yaya at the polls come October 18, 2001, is the issue about the Massacre of our children on April 10 and 11, 2000 and the subsequent handling of that case. Need we inform Gambians that on those fateful days Yaya ordered his security apparatus to open fire on defenseless and innocent children in broad daylight? All for what? To perpetuate a tyrant. Yaya was on record telling his security apparatus to ‘fill the RVH mortuary if the students struck on his government’. Yaya was on record saying that he was micro-managing what was going on in Banjul on April 10 and 11, 2000, while he was in Cuba. Even if the vermin denies that now, he CANNOT deny the fact that he REFUSED to hold any of his officials on the ground responsible for this heinous act against our children. Instead, the vermin blamed the children and their parents for coming out to demonstrate against the murder and rape of fellow students. They killed our children and then sought to mock us. Right after the slaughter, Fatoumatta Jahumpa called a rally to celebrate Yaya. Simply disgusting. And to add insult to injury, the vermin put us through a bogus commission of inquiry and coroner’s inquest, just to further add to the grief of the families that lost loved ones. Top government officials like Ousman Badgie went to the bogus bodies and tell blatant lies willy-nilly. In certain instances, the vermin defied the Chief Justice and openly refused to answer pertinent questions to the inquiries. After the coroner and the commission were ready with their reports, the government rejected the reports with contempt. Pap Cheyassin Secka will NOT even talk to the people about why Yaya rejected the reports. But the brutal assault and torture on our people did NOT end there. Yaya went to his cohorts in Parliament and asked them to pass a Decree immunizing his security forces from the heinous crimes they committed against our children. To this day no one has been held responsible for this crime. Yet the vermin want us to discredit the lives of our children and just move on. Move on to where? So that his forces can kill 100 children next time they are on a rampage? Forgiveness and reconciliation begins with repentance. The vermin NEVER for one moment accepted responsibility. They NEVER said that they were sorry. Instead what they did was unleash the animals that murdered Ebrima Barry (catalyst of the April Demonstration) in order to show that our children’s actions were NOT justified. Needless to say, no one buys this gimmick. We know the people that killed Ebrima Barry are as guilty as sin. Our children were justified to demand that the government metes justice on the animals that murdered their colleague. We should NEVER let these people to continue leading us. NEVER in the history of our country have we experienced such atrocity from the very people that are meant to protect innocent and defenseless children. We send our departed children the wrong message if we allow child murderers to lead us. We tell our children that we do NOT value their lives. Let us vote for someone that will bring meaningful development to our country and would NOT slaughter our children. That ridiculous arch at Independence Drive is NOT worth a single drop of blood from a Gambian child. Most Gambians would rather live in the Stone Age (without development) than have their children slaughtered through the hands of some trigger-happy thugs working on the orders of a loose-canon like Yaya. But Darboe is NOT offering the Gambian people those extreme alternatives. Darboe will develop the country far better than Yaya can even imagine. More importantly, Gambians can rest assured that Darboe will NEVER order the slaughter of their children. KB _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------