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Enough is enough: Jammeh must be stopped - Daily Observer
Thursday, 24 March 2011 10:39
Ever since he forced his way to power in July 1994, Yaya Jammeh, now president of The Gambia, has been engaged in brutal and even
murderous repression against his own people. He has abused the human rights of Gambians, killed journalists, including Deyda Hydara, president of the Gambia Press Union, and many others. These include some of the lieutenants who collaborated with him in the coup d'état that overthrew the elected President Sir Dawda K. Jawara. Last year Jammeh openly threatened to annihilate human rights activists. Now, yet another journalist, the Gambian Observer's Ebrima Manneh, has been killed while in Jammeh's jail.
This latest murder at the hands of President Jammeh's bloodstained hands has caught the attention of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
In a letter to the Gambian President, CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon requested clarification of President Jammeh's March 16 comments suggesting “Chief” Ebrima Manneh, a reporter for the Daily Observer, may have died.
“Manneh disappeared after witnesses saw him being arrested by state security agents in the offices of the Daily Observer on July 7, 2007,” Simon told the Gambian ruler. “The government has previously denied any knowledge of Manneh's fate,” Simon said.
He recalled that Jammeh had said in that meeting with the press that his government had “nothing to do with the death of Chief Manneh or Deyda Hydara or the disappearances of so many people.”
What a terrible contradiction! Jammeh, as a totalitarian ruler, has total control of the Gambia and its people. So how can he claim he knew nothing about Deyda Hydara, when Gambian security officers shot him in the head in the presence of many people?
The world must know about the absolute tyranny that has befallen the Gambian people, and start doing something decisive about it. We call on the International Press Institute (IPI), Amnesty International, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU), the United States and the United Nations to come to the rescue of the Gambian people and their media by first condemning Jammeh's brutal and murderous repression of his people and his perennial suppression of freedom of speech, of the press and other personal freedoms in The Gambia.
As in the case of Libya, we pray that the United Nations Security Council will see the need to do something to come to the aid of the Gambian people. Yaya Jammeh has to be told that he must stop this tyranny or else . . .
Source: The Liberian Daily Observer
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