By Ebrima Manneh After all the brutalization and sadistic treatment experienced under Yaya Jammeh’s reign, there is an unexplainable silence and conformity, loyalty and lack of a mass uprising that will shake and oust this regime. The fact that dictators use the fear psychosis and the “Big Lie Theory” as their propaganda doctrine in keeping the masses under control is no longer a mystery. It is not a secret that terror has been an effective weapon that the Jammeh regime uses to silence and suppress dissent. Jammeh like all other dictators, appealed to the people as being glorious, a…
Author: Gainako
INDEMNITY? HOW ABOUT YOUR CONSCIENCE? It’s that time of the year again. Never gets old. 15 years on, the pain and agony of one of the darkest days of our nation’s history remains fresh in our minds. The massacre that went unpunished, persistent ache and sadness of the families and nation with no closure. We pray and mourn. Like every recurring April and year, we’ll continue to hold Jammeh and his administration accountable. They’ve slaughtered Gambians and drive over the blood and spirits of innocent Gambians in those Kanifing streets EVERYDAY like nothing ever happened. Yaya loses no sleep…
By Modou C Nyang Is another April 10th and 11th, Fifteen years on the Count, the assurance to ensure Justice looks in impossible? As we (the Gambians) marks the 15th anniversary of the April 10 and 11 student demo this year which was brutally suppressed by the Gambian own security forces, resulting in the deaths of more than 14 innocent Gambian children and the maiming of several more, We the aggrieved comrades, relatives and friends of those innocent young souls are still waiting for justice. We request the Government of the Gambia to implement its security obligation of ensuring…
By Alkali Conteh. Growing up in Sabbach-Sanjal in the early 1960’s we witnessed the Gambia’s political climate beginning to shape up. As the powers in charge were determined to derail the efforts of the emerging political landscape to bring self rule to our nation, our people turned to the grassroots to fight for what was rightly ours. An unspoken phenomenon and less known connivance was the continuous attempt to disenfranchise all other citizens of the nation except for the colony to participate in elections. There was a well concocted scheme to exclude the rest of the country to participate…
By Momodou Ndow Hired fired hired fired and hired and fired again Arrested shackled paraded humiliated and jailed They return consciously seeking more thrill of shame Consumed by fear bearing gifts and praying for emperor How vain is blind and detrimental loyalty to the soul Conscience on vacation and decadence filling in Reckless hopeless miserable they’ve been dragged by the tail Bodies bruised battered and burning like a heatwave Aching souls and bleeding conscience dot the landscape Still they carry the burden under the heat and dust The wheels keep spinning leaving the audience violently dizzy Night…
Incumbent Council man Joe Clausius By Demba Baldeh It is official ~ Gambian born US naturalized citizen Samba Baldeh has won his election bit for a Council man seat in District 17 Madison Wisconsin. Mr. Baldeh who contested against a four times incumbent Senior Council man Joe Clausius. Joe Clausius was first elected to the Madison City Council in 2007 and has since been reelected four consecutive times. Mr. Clausius has a distinguish record as a common council man and served on several committees. Samba Baldeh who was the fresh man challenger…
By Abdul Savage I submit it will be unjust, unfair and outright disrespectful to suggest any future Accountability exercise by the Gambian people as “witch-hunt”. ONE THING we all can agree on, whether you are a pro-Jammeh, pro-APRC or not is this: lots of wrongs have been done to the Gambian people for the last 20 plus years. There have been reports of torture, rape, killings, disappearances as well as other misuses and abuses of office and power, not to mention the millions of dollars that were secured and or borrowed in the name of the Gambian people, but…
By Mathew K Jallow It is a war that has sapped the wills of so many, and forced the escape, to freedom, of so many others. It is an undefined war that is also fought in the minds, and which has tested the will and challenged the depths of a nation’s commitment to itself. And it is a war without borders; but with frontiers that extend as far as the imagination. There is nothing a human-being cherishes more than liberty and the mental and intellectual freedom, which occupy its space. But the last two decades have been extremely challenging for…
By Baba G. Jallow The ongoing trial of Darsilami Sangajor Caliph Sheikh Sheriff Muhideen Hydara represents one of the most nauseating inflictions of unnecessary and totally unjust harassment of innocent persons by Yahya Jammeh’s Bully State. Over the past several months, the elderly man of God is being forced to attend a series of court proceedings to answer charges of disobeying Yahya Jammeh’s order that all Muslims perform the annual Eid-Ul Fitr prayers on a day he designated for the purpose. Historically, Muslim communities performed the prayers on the day they felt comfortable that they had seen the new…
AN OPEN LETTER TO FREEDOMNEWSPAPER.COM “Stereotypes on tribal identification and supremacy could trigger misunderstanding and distrust between people”. Lately, the undesirable postings by Mr. Bakary Bojang and “A Concerned Gambian” have prompted me to write an open letter to the publisher of Freedomnewspaper.com and his editorial board, and express my deep concerns and reservations about their focus and direction. As an educator, I hereby caution the publisher of Freedomnewspaper.com and his editorial board about these deleterious assertions and intolerances, and kindly appeal to them to use professional judgment and integrity before printing inaccurate and tribal allegations. May I also…