Supposedly in the month of Ramadan muslims are to show their utmost sense of dignity justice and compassion but it comes as no surprise that so call muslims will permit such barberic activeties as torture in this day and age when non muslims will put their lives on the line in defense for animal rights. They will wear tubans and carry arround rosaries while they ignore the cry of their own flesh and blood being torture next door. No amount of excuse should be given for torture not even for animals let alone humans. This activeties that are becoming acceptable in our society are the reflection of ourselves and more so our leadership. We are all to hold part of the responsiblity,it is our nation whatever happens there we cannot run from the blame.

A worse case scenerio is one of the regularly tortured scramble upon power do we think they will show mercy for their former torturers; it is such a circle of inhumane exchange we witness in other parts of the world. Since this regime is sowing the seeds of such relationships may our faith in God over shadow the friuts of their labour.

kalilu

>From: Asbjųrn Nordam <[log in to unmask]>

>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]>

>To: [log in to unmask]

>Subject: Re: Journalist Explains Torture By NIA

>Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:44:41 +0100

>Sorry to say that this is not the first time we get such horrifying

>testimony, that torture and other abuses take place in the NIA headquarter

>in Banjul. (and other places in The Gambia)

>No matter what kind of accusation NIA wants to raise against a person,

>TORTURE must be condemned.

>It“s only a few months ago we got another testimony how a person was

>stripped naked and tortured with electric wires on his head and genitals.

>Sorry to say that this has become the most common torture all over the

>world. Why humiliate a person by stripping him naked ? Why torture him and

>keep him under very critical condition ? What kind of people are the

>tormentors, who wants to see people suffer, feel that they have the total

>power over another person, and even enjoy to execute the torture ?

>I said it last year after the april incident, that we need discipline among

>the military, police and paramilitary. When they have people under their

>control and in custody, there is no need to beat them up. People who has the

>power over other human beings must show the utmost discipline, handle

>everything correctly and by the book.

>The Gambia must be an example on the HUMAN RIGHTS, because The Gambia has

>(as one of few African states) sign and ratified the "African Charter on

>Human and Peoples Right", in october The Gambia hosted the 30th session of

>the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights and in the closing

>communiqué expressed concern over appalling situation of human and people“s

>rights in many African states, and The Gambia has laid the foundation stone

>of the permanent headquarters of the Commission.

>I find it very embarrassing if NIA should be the first to face a case when

>the headquarter is finished. So Mr. President, I think it“s time for you to

>inspect the NIA headquarters, and maybe talk discipline and order to the

>personnel, and maybe your broom should sweep out some of the staff, now you

>are trimming the states employees. !?

>Asbjųrn Nordam

>Denmark

>on 03/12/01 16:56, Edward Small at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> > This is what's happening in The Gambia, done by Gambians, to Gambians. This

> > is what the all-achieving JULY 22nd REVOLUTION has brought us. It reads like

> > a scene from a novel set in GESTAPO Germany, 1940s.

> >

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