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kobo
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OVERVIEW FROM RELATED WORLD POLITICS TOPIC When Mubarak tumbles... UNDER http://www.gambia.dk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10357
THEN CONTINUE WITH FREEDOM ON-LINE NEWSPAPER COMMENTARY The Gambia: A narrow look at where we come from and where we are going By Mathew K. Jallow under http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Homepage/tabid/36/mid/367/newsid367/5935/Gambia--The-Gambia-A-narrow-look--at-where-we-come-from-and-where-we-are-going/Default.aspx
SAME COMMENTARY FROM MAAFANTA.COM The Gambia: A narrow look at where we come from and where we are going By Mathew K. Jallow UNDER http://www.maafanta.com/MathewJallowGambiaNarrowLook.html
SERVING YOU THE BARBECUE FOOD OF Mathew K. Jallow's COMMENTARY UNDER QUOTES EXTRACTED ABOVE;
"For us in The Gambia, the opportunities to form a critical mass as a bulwark against the tyranny of Yahya Jammeh, have come and gone more times than we can care to remember, yet we have continually failed to capitalize on Jammeh’s many tragic mistakes, in order to seek freedom and liberty for our selves and for generations still unborn.
As tragic as it is, every time someone was murdered, each instance someone disappeared, and whenever someone was tortured, it created an opportunity to rid our country of Yahya Jammeh, instead, we have a history of cowering in fear and doing nothing.
But now, the good people of the Arab world have shown us a pathway to regain our own freedoms; they have shown us how not to absorb the pain and agony in fearful silence; and they have shown us that the new frontiers of freedom and justice are within our gasp, once we recognize that dictators like Yahya Jammeh, put up veneers of invincibility, whose psychological subtext is at variance with reality.
And like all societies undone by social turmoil throughout history, our own revolution will be figuratively blessed with the blood of our own martyrs; Gambians whose sacrifice must never be forgotten, and whose deaths must be an inspiration and a rallying point for our struggles against tyranny. Hopefully what is happening on the streets of Cairo, of Amman, of Tunis, of Algiers, and hopefully of Tripoli, of Mecca and Algiers, will rub off on us and other nations of Sub-Saharan Africa, so once again, we can reclaim and repossess our rights as a free people, entitled to live our lives free from fear, of intimidation, of terror and the loss of our lives.
For even at this late hour, we have the ability to turn our past failures to rid our country of Yahya Jammeh into new opportunities; to draw a line on the sand and tell Yahya Jammeh the dying, the tortures, the witch-hunting and incarceration has to stop; that the dangerous weapons he purchased to slaughter our fellow citizens, is enough proof of his objectification of our countrymen; and represents a true manifestation of his lack of emotional attachment to our country and its people.
Gambians have suffered enough shellacking and the time to demonstrate pragmatism by graduating from theoretical to practical aspect of our liberation struggle is now. The turmoil in the Arab world can be a catalyst for political change if we in our country can take courage from the revolutionary quest that has swept across North Africa and the Middle-East.
The 30 years dictatorship of Egypt under Hosni Mubarak has fallen, and before it is said and done, more will follow the same path. And if this does not serve as a warning to Yahya Jammeh and his elk, then nothing else will.
Egypt with the tenth largest army in the world and with the most sophisticated weaponry money could buy, could not save Hosni Mubarak from the peoples power. In the same vein, it is inconceivable how a group of rag-tag Casamance rebels can save Yahya Jammeh from the wrath of the Gambian army and its people. There is one caveat about our military; they fear Jammeh, they serve at Jammeh’s will, but they damn well hate Yahya Jammeh; everyone one of them who has the blood of The Gambia running through his or her veins, even those that he bribes to keep him in power.
But the day of reckoning is surely at hand.“Surely the second coming is at hand, the second coming.”(Yeats)." 
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