On April 10th/11th 2000
We extended dialogue to you
And you answered with recalcitrance and insults
As if we do not share community
A commonalty of nation and destiny
The barbarity of your treachery
On April 10th/11th 2000
Our embrace of common sense
You misconstrued for lack of determination
To further the course of justice
And address the wrongs done to us
The stupidity of your politics
On April 10th/11th 2000
We came out in peace and order
But you reacted with instruments of war
Your hidden agents of shame and terror
That maim rape and murder
The brutality of your methods
On April 10th/11th 2000
You sent the cream of the nation
Into lands yonder and foreign
Cutting or altering their lives
Which could have made this land great
The criminality of your actions
On April 10th/11th 2000
That day you pointed guns at us
Your dogs to bite and bark at us
You turned our ties so ugly
Your pride changed to shame
The contradictions of your purpose
By: Omar Joof