Spot on. That is what All of them should call for and not only that Jammeh to go should be another pillar of their agenda not writing to the monster. Sent from my iPhone On 3 Sep 2012, at 06:02, "Haruna" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'll try to get Halifa's statement during the same period for ambiance or maybe Cous Modou can share that with us. In these three reactions you can measure quality of leadership. Its like a snapshot in crucial time. Do me a favor, after you read all three separate reactions, come back here and gauge them in decreasing order of courage and or mettle. And then tell us if the G-6 was a voluntary organization without protocol, how did we know it was G-6 as opposed to G-2 say?????????????????????????????????????????????????/ > > > Darboe Calls For International Sanctions > > Reads :477 > > Darboe calls for International travel ban against Jammeh & co, if he executes! > > The Gambia’s opposition leader Ousainou Darboe has called for international sanctions against President Yahya Jammeh, if reports of his execution of the country’s death row prisoners are true; according to AFP news reports today. > > “It’s time for the international community to take measures that will make Jammeh conform with accepted international standards,” United Democratic Party leader is reported to have told AFP. > He is reported to have explained that throughout his career as a politician he had never asked the international community to take any hard measures against The Gambia, but wants to appeal to the international community, that if Jammeh carries out the executions, it should order a travel ban for him and all his ministers. > > He further advised that Jammeh should be thinking of securing food for the Gambians and providing them with health care, better education and better living condition than threatening to execute their brethren. > The Gambia’s former colonial power Britain is also reported to have expressed concern at the reports, which the Gambian government has not confirmed but said that death row prisoners had exhausted their rights of appeal. Amnesty International said Friday that nine prisoners had been executed, less than a week after Jammeh pledged to hang all those on death row, estimated to number at least 47, by the middle of September. > According to Amnesty, those executed Thursday night included one woman and two Senegalese citizens. The hangings were reported to have taken place only a day after the African Union sent a special envoy to plead with Jammeh not to carry out his threat. > > Amnesty International said that it had “received credible reports that nine persons were executed last night in Gambia and that more persons are under threat of imminent executions today and in the coming days.” > A Gambian security source told AFP that all death row prisoners had been “transferred to one place” late Thursday but he and other sources could not confirm the executions. > However the security source said, “The man is determined to execute the prisoners and he will do so,” referring to Jammeh. > > In a televised address Sunday to mark the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, Jammeh said: “By the middle of next month, all the death sentences would have been carried out to the letter. There is no way my government will allow 99 percent of the population to be held to ransom by criminals. All those guilty of serious crimes and (who) are condemned will face the full force of the law. All punishments prescribed by law will be maintained in the country to ensure that criminals get what they deserve,” Jammeh said. > > He added that crimes like banditry, drug trafficking or illicit use, homosexuality, murder, terrorism and other subversive activities against either the state or the people would not be tolerated. > Alistair Burt, a British deputy foreign minister, said in a statement Saturday: “I am deeply concerned over reports that nine prisoners on death row in The Gambia have been executed following comments by President Jammeh that all death row prisoners would now be executed.” > > “I urge the Gambian authorities to halt any further executions. The UK Government opposes all use of the death penalty as a matter of principle.” > Burt said Gambia had not carried out any executions since 1981, while Amnesty said the last one officially reported was in 1985. 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