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Five soldiers killed in Casamance
Monday, 27 December 2010 23:13
JollofNews - At least five members of the Senegalese army have been reportedly killed in clashes between MFDC
rebels and loyalist forces.The incident occurred in the Southern Senegalese town of Bignona, near the border with Gambia.
This is the biggest loss of life on the side of government forces since some time last year, when six soldiers died in a similar outbreak of fighting.
There are no clear details as to the number of casualties on the rebel side. But the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) cited a military source who said the rebels also suffered serious loses. This was also confirmed by a report by the BBC’s Dakar correspondent.
Two soldiers wounded
Earlier on Sunday, APS reported two soldiers wounded in another clash with what the authorities prefer to refer to as “armed gangs”.
Those clashes which took place in the same Bignona area were classified as attempted robbery. The Senegalese army’s intervention to secure the area resulted into an all-out gunfire between them and armed gangs.
After these incidents, "the rally warrior", a reconnaissance aircraft of the national army, took off from Ziguinchor, certainly on a mission of raking, reported APS.
The objective of the close to three decades of conflict that started off as an independent struggle have since lost on the MFDC rebels, who have since become more engaged in banditry and other criminal activities.
Their continued sporadic activities remain a constant source of animosity between Gambia and Senegal, with the latter remaining suspicious of the role of the former in the conflict.
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Senegal should know now and realised that as long as Pirate Jammeh is resided in Kanilai or leader on Gambia, Senegal will never have peace in casamance. I am sure he has started sleeping less in Kanilai fear waking up and being encircled by superior army. Cruise missile can do the job well if... but the wife and kids?
They should raid that kanilai and the surroundings since that’s where all these rotten minds live, sleep, labour and get drunk and grill his beef meat at kanilai farms. No offence to none violence folks but some things if let be are far more devastating than you can ever imagine
Senegalese newspapers are raging today with some openly calling for Kanilai to be wiped off the map, who can blame them? Today, about 7 families will bury their sons, and without a doubt, Gambia's role in this incidence will become a top of conversation and the question really is our government complicit?
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The current weapons cache in Nigeria & other numerous documented evidences like harboring & issue of Gambian diplomatic passports to Alexandra Djiba & Salif Sadjo, etc, etc, can TESTIFY to yaya’s involvement, NOT Gambia! This is why yaya chose to relocate the seat of his bandit-junta closer to the rebels in Kanilai where they can communicate & interact at will without much notice. Senegal MUST cut off the ‘snake’s head’ who is multifaceted in his banditry of catastrophic disposition for selfish aggrandizement. To terminate the ‘life-support’, Wadda MUST strike at the ROOT of the problem which’s yaya jammeh.
These were the words of Colin Powell at the start of the 1991 Gulf War concerning America's strategy against the Iraqi Army..... and until Senegal cuts and kills off the source of support for this utterly goalless insurgency that has degenerated into banditry, her sons will continue to die in a very pointless manner.
In the city of Brikama, everyone knows that those heavily-laden Land Rovers (with neither Gambian nor Senegalese registration) heading for the border on a daily basis, are the main suppliers of food and god knows what else to those bandits in the bush of Cassamance........Are Gambians having blood on our hands through our silence and complicity?
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