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Calls For Targeted Sanction Against Gambia's Jammeh & Co
Monday, 24 December 2012 19:02
Why This Is Important(JollofNews) – I am Mai Ahmad Fatty, Human Rights Lawyer, Gambian political activists and Leader of The Gambia Moral Congress (GMC).
I submit this Petition on behalf of The Gambia Moral Congress and its associates globally, as well as on behalf of all victims of human rights atrocities in The Gambia and their families.
The Gambia is one of the few final strong-holds for dictatorship in Africa. It is the only country in West Africa where the rule of law, good governance and the sanctity of human life are alien concepts.
It is the only country in West Africa where torture, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial executions, detention without trial, statutory murder and extra-judicial convictions have become officially entrenched as normal governance practices.
It is the only country in Africa where the President publicly proclaimed and adopted the official policy of assassination against human rights defenders, and declared journalists the illegitimate sons of Africa who should "rot in hell."
Mai Ahmed FattyIt is the country whose President shoots school children in cold-blood, fire-bomb press houses and murder journalists, lawyers and religious leaders, and institutionalised impunity as the sole governance trait.
It is the worst dictatorship, the worst kept secret killing field and the most politically intolerant regime in West Africa. It is impossible to change it electorally because the electoral system is fundamentally flawed and indomitably skewed in favour of the regime.
The President declqtred that he "shall rule for a thousand years", asserting that elections SHALL NOT remove his government. The opposition and civil societies have been rendered severely impotent, as any form of dissent attracts the ultimate penalty.
The regime intensifies its containment of democracy each day, and rules strictly through the intrument of paralysing fear and the practice of brutality againt ordinary citizens.
The regime is sustained in power through the budgetary support and development funding of the EU, the United States, Canada, and offerred diplomatic validation by the African Union and ECOWAS. Foremost, the EU as the largest development partner under the ACP-EU Agreement is principally responsible for financing the regime's sustainability and its senseless brutality against ordinary citizens.
Without the support of the EU, major pillars of the regime wouild have collapsed. The EU has the capacity to disrupt the economic might of the regime without negatively impacting ordinary citizens, and its failure to do so is directly responsible for the loss of many innocent lives, the torture of many and other grievous human rights abuses.
The EU must be made to comply with its obligations under international Instruments in its dealings with The Gambia.
The United States and the rest of the international community has the obligation to protect our shared values and require definite consequences against the regime without delay.
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Alternatively..there is a direct correlation between the building of roads.schools.and health centres, that stream from the Conoutau agreement and the cash advances from the IMF and the World Bank, the EU, Taiwan, the US Kuwait, the UK and other foreign donars.
If Gambia cannot reciprocate to persue its honour to its international obligations, ala Human Rights, rule of Law and impunity...
Mai Fatty has every right to draw the EU and the US into the frame, to explain there current position and there next step to gain accountability.
The ball is now firmly in the EU and US court.
Let them reconcile this persistant "slippage" from the Gambian government, and by what recovery action they intend to take.
I Wish the struggle a great success in 2013.
We are saying the same thing in different forms. Having said that, you HAVE NO EVIDENCE that they did not share this vital information in advance. The Petition is signed by over a hundred people but its forensics showed it viewed by over a thousand people. My conclusion is that most people were afraid to sign it for fear of reprisal of some sort. The other could be because its got to do with usual aparthy. An idea should be supported if it has the potential to advance our struggle. The search for unity is necessary before certain political actions and this Petition in my view is NOT a necessary condition. Mr. Fatty has been leading with several initiatives. Lets sign it, move on and end tyranny. I have no time for new opportunists who rose from 11 years of hibernation after wining and dining with the dictator for years.
We are saying the same thing in different forms. Mr. Fatty and his people are better off not waiting to seek unity but act. Besides, you HAVE NO EVIDENCE that they did not share this vital information in advance. The Petition is signed by over a hundred people but viewed by over a thousand people. My conclusion is that most people were afraid to sign it for fear of reprisal of some sort. The other could be because its got to do with partisanship. An idea should be supported if it has the potential to advance our struggle. The search for unity is necessary before certain political actions and this Petition in my view is NOT a necessary condition. Mr. Fatty has clearly leading with several initiatives. I wished other opposition politicians would also come out with similar initiatives. Lets sign it, move on and end tyranny. Well done Fatty and Team, no time for new opportunists who rose from 11 years of hibernation after wining and dining with the dictator for years.
I agree with you that this petition is genuien but i believe that it could be more helpful and could have more signatories by now if the idea was shared before being posted.
Our individual efforts are useful in the struggle but without any form of unity, we can never bring down a dictatorship.
Suspend your political interests for a while if you care about the interest of your nation.
When did the opposition parties or Gambians in the diaspora ever unite for anything? If Mr. Fatty and GMC were to wait for the opposition to unite on this point, a Petition would never see the light of day. Whats important for The Gambia at this stage is to support every little positive effort that may destroy the dictator or his capacity to destroy. In that spirit, let us sign it instead of shootingdown the Messenger. The focus should be on whether their idea is helpful and not why was GMC and not Party A, B, C or all of them. So far they placed it in the public domain for all Gambians, wnd that for me is enough evidence of their recognition of the need for public support. I also saw it posted at various Gambian sites on Facebook. I am a PDOIS sympathiser but I support and sign this GMC Petition. Let us share, sign and support. GMC or Mr. Fatty are not the problem, Yaya Jammeh is. We should always remember that.
Looking at the number of the signatories,dou bt if Mr Fatty had even discuss this petition with more that 50 members of GMC.Don`t tell mell that they have no access to computers.
As i said, we should the petition but i hope Mr Fatty will aslo learn something positve from the TEST.
Why are you submitting a petition in the name of a political party when there is no political space in the Gambia?
Why can`t you unite and get rid of the dictatorship in the country so that your political parties can have a political space?
Don`t let your political parties divide and rule your minds over your national issues.Stop using these neo-colonial tools to delay your own progress.
Some of you have overlooked the Petition. Mr. Fatty has been very clear on this. At the start of the Petition, he introduced himself and stated that it was presented on behalf of GMC. This is an opposition political Party, not an individual. Mr. Fatty is the Leader, and in presenting it on behalf of GMC, he is not going it alone, it is a Party project. Secondly, the important thing is the substance of the Petition. Sign it if you agree with it, and STOP shooting the Messenger because you dont like the Message. I am sure ONLY Jammeh supporters will have objection to this Petition, and NOT sign it. That is the litmus test, NOT the Petition or who presented it.
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