I am so proud of you Bailo. Thank you for you. I hereby join you in urging The UDP/NRP, NADD, GMC and GMP to coordinate a joint news conference or issue a joint press release to demonstrate unison in disgust of wanton lawlessness in Gambia. I think your idea is wise and valuable and therefore I join you in the plea. Haruna. I encourage our own Saihou Mballoh and NADD rep. to convey the wish to their parties' executives or the appropriate officers. Thank you again Bailo. Haruna. Baba, We are dealing with a tyrant whose ultimate objective is to chain the minds of all Gambians and turn us in to sycophants. He is restless because in spite of all his brutality since July 1994 he had been unable to subdue all Gambians. He potrays himself as holiest than all in the world while in reality he is nothing but a killer of innocent people and a devil-worshipper. All he craves for and pursues is designed to centre attention on himself ranging from his falsified claims that he could cure AIDs to his mass poisoning of Gambian villagers in the guise of cleansing the nation of witches. He equates notoriety with fame, subjugation with heroism, murders with bravery and deception with smartness. Let all Gambians save the Fangkung Fankungs unite and speak with one voice to convey their disgust at the latest desperate tactics of the tyrant. I urge the leadership of UDP, NRP and PDOIS to convene a joint-press conference or failing which at least issue a joint press release to condemn the continued mud-dragging of our national prestige by the deviant enterprise led by Yahya Jammeh. Time for all Gambian patriots to unite and defeat the tyrannical regime of Yahya Jammeh. Bailo --- On Tue, 16/6/09, Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]> Subject: GPU-Gambia Issues Another Strong Statement To: [log in to unmask] Date: Tuesday, 16 June, 2009, 11:15 PM Dear All,  On behalf of our parent body and on behalf of GPU-USA, I want to say a very big thank you to all who have added their voices to the chorus of condemnation against the impunity being perpetrated by the Jammeh dictatorship against innocent Gambian journalists. The outpouring of outrage testfies to the heart-warming reality that Gambians will no longer take the abuses thrown at them by a despotic and callous regime. We all must continue fighting back with whatever means at our disposal in order to end the impunity of the Jammeh regime. Because of their insensitivity and greed, despotic regimes can understand only the language of force, which they use against innocent people but which they dread like the bubonic plague itself. Again, thanks all for the solidarity. Below is the new statement issued by GPU-Gambia, which refuses to be silenced or intimidated by Jammeh's bully tactics.  Baba  GAMBIA PRESS UNION NO. 5 GARBA JAHUMPA ROAD BAKAU NEWTOWN P. O. Box 1440, Banjul, The Gambia email: [log in to unmask] url: www.gambiapressunion.org Press Release T uesday, June 16 2009 20:00 HRS GPU Calls on International Community, others The Gambia Press Union wishes to bring to the attention of the Gambian Public, Gambians in the Diaspora, international and regional journalist associations and institutions and the international community that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) still has in its custody, three senior members of the Union Executive and four other journalists, over 24 hours after the first arrests which took place early on Monday afternoon. The group, namely GPU Secretary General, Emil Touray, Vice President Sarata Jabbi-Dibba, and Treasurer, Pa Modou Faal; together with Pap Saine and Ebrima Sawaneh, Publisher and Editor of The Point newspaper respectively; And, Sam Sarr and Abubcarr Saidykhan Editor and Reporter, Foroyaa newspaper, have all been denied legal access. The GPU lawyer has made several efforts to speak to the group since their arrest on Monday but was told the earliest he could get someone of Authority to grant the permission, is tomorrow, Wednesday. Their families and loved ones have also been denied access. We consider this a violation of their rights to counsel, to liberty and to freedom of expression. All of these, rights inter alia guaranteed by the 1997 Constitution of The Gambia in Sections 17, 21, 25, 33 and 207. As stated earlier, we still stand by our statements of Thursday, June 11 and will not, for fear of arrests and continued detention waver in the face of truth. The truth so remains that the Deyda H ydara investigations have stalled, the truth so remains that the statement of the head of state on Deyda’s death signals an apparent growing State irrationality and unwillingness to entertain the topic and to continue the investigations; the truth so remains that Chief Manneh disappeared and that the State, even though all the chances were afforded to so clear its name in the matter, chose not to and refused to do so at the right forum, the ECOWAS Court of Justice; And the truth so remains that the media laws in The Gambia and the prevailing environment of hostility towards the media, make it practically impossible for one to practice efficiently as a journalist. In reiterating our demand for the immediate and unconditional release of our colleagues, one of whom is a nursing mother, we call on the international community to join the GPU, journalist groups to condemn these latest attacks on media freedoms in The Gambia and to call on the Gambia Government to cease the unnecessary and continued harassment of Gambian journalists. The struggle continues.  Ndey Tapha Sosseh President      Windows Liveâ„¢: Keep your life in sync. 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