Analysis

“India’s 9/11”

--New Direction Needed In The Region

 By LT. COL. SAMSUDEEN SARR, (Rtd.)

What a sad week in Mumbai, India's financial capital with such a devastating attack from suicidal gunmen on the rampage again; I don‘t know whether you noticed it? It it was barely a day after I finished registering my concern in the last paper over the potentiality of future crisis in that nation. My focal concern was however about the huge disparity between the haves and the have-nots in India. The identity and reasons of the attackers are yet to be fully established but already, speculators are blaming Islamic militants for the carnage.

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Essa Bokar Sey Reacts to Echo Story

--Says Not Bitter With Villains Who Maligned His Character; Blames Jammeh’s Rashness 

Ambasador Essa Bokarr Sey and President Yahya Jammeh

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Analysis

World War II: 63 Years After

 By **Ivan Simic, Belgrade, Serbia

Since the Second World War (WII) many things have changed in the world, both in economy and warfare. Post WW II atmosphere initiated competition for the world's true hegemony. This competition brought us numerous good and bad things; one of the good things was the rapid development of technology, science, and medicine, among many other things. Conversely, the increased competition succeeded in the manufacture and development of lethal weapons- bombs, machines and the consequent danger of great economic crises.

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Barack Obama’s Victory And What it Means to Me

By Lieutenant Colonel Samsudeen Sarr (Rtd.)

It has been a while since I last contributed to The Echo; nevertheless, I have indeed been following your publications on a regular basis. I was in fact, often tempted into sending you rejoinders on some provocative articles, but somehow I would abort the desire. You may in part attribute that to my busy schedules but the better part was mainly due to the past exciting USA election drama. I had to follow that religiously.

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Commentary

The things that bother the imagination.

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Two weeks ago, Jammeh invited some people from Guinea-Bissau to The Gambia in an effort to help resolve their political problems. This effort was a ridiculing of the political stalemate in our country in which the opposition is both invisible and constricted in what they can do, where they can go, and more importantly what they can say.

Gambia's tyrant Jammeh- Threatening to kill more

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Yahya Jammeh: From the Ridiculous to the Absurd

Echo Editorial

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

After fourteen years of unprecedented brutality, a hundred and fifty people slaughtered, executed, disappeared, tortured, dying slowly behind Gambia’s notorious prison walls, and a decade of mind numbing corruption, divisive tribalism, incompetent management, and incorrigible stupidity, the world is finally now coming to grips with Yahya Jammeh’s misanthropic regime.

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Breaking News: Jammeh Gov’t. Recalls J.T. Kujabie

- Declares Ousman Taal, Wanted Person

By EBRIMA G. SANKAREH, Editor-In- Chief

Unimpeachable sources nestled within the corridors of state power say the autocratic government of President Yahya Jammeh has recalled its Washington, DC Cultural Attaché, Ebrima J.T. Kujabie. Says a highly reputable source, “President Jammeh wants J.T. to return to Banjul immediately, although no specific reasons were advanced for his recall”. “If Kujabie has not yet received his letter of recall yet, be rest assured that he would receive it in the next 24 hours” our source stated emphatically.

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Amnesty Int’l. Exposes Jammeh’s Rogue Regime- II

--More Evidence of Torture, Killings & Disappearances

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE?

When the 14 defendants were charged in June 2006, their defence counsel questioned the impartiality and independence of the judge assigned to the case. The judge had been Director of Public Prosecutions for four years prior to his appointment as the High Court judge overseeing the treason trial. Given the sensitivity of the case, the fact that he had been so closely associated with the government immediately prior to this appointment gave the defence teams cause to doubt that he could rule impartially.

Gambia's tyrant Jammeh- Threatening to kill more

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Amnesty Int’l. Indicts Yahya Jammeh’s Rogue Regime

--2008 Report Says Gambia is Hell

London based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has added its voice to the dismal human rights record under Yahya Jammeh’s tyrannical regime in the mini-West African state of The Gambia, describing the atmosphere as a sate where fear rules. Below we begin the reproduction of the comprehensive report detailing the utterly despicable dictatorship and how it continues to summarily execute perceived political opponents, detain innocent citizens with impunity. It is a chronicle of DISASTER and the international community; the United States in particular, does not seem to give a damn. 

 INTRODUCTION

This report illustrates how human rights violations in Gambia are perpetrated by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), army and police against real and perceived opponents of the government on a routine basis. It demonstrates that once people are in the custody of the government, they are susceptible to a whole range of human rights violations including unlawful detention, torture while in detention, unfair trials, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial executions.

Yahya Jammeh-Gambia's psychotic tyrant

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Entertainment World Mourns The Death of Miriam Makeba

BY TIJAN NIMAGA, Bronx New York

The entertainment world mourns the death of Miriam Makeba, South Africa’s legendary anti-apartheid musician and singer icon. She was the woman crowned the Empress of Africa and “Mama Africa” and until her death, she was considered the most important female vocalist to come out of South Africa.

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Remembering the Indomitable Mariam Makeba

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

The year was 1970, and it was a spectacularly beautiful day. And nearly sixteen miles away from Banjul, Yundum Airport was besieged by thousands of eager young and not so young Gambians, from all over the Greater Banjul area. And although there was no red carpet reception at the foot of the aircraft, it was nonetheless a welcome fit for a King. On that day, so long ago, even President Dawda K. Jawara was gracious enough to provide his official limousine and several other government vehicles for the occasion, if only to help the young people of our country celebrate the most important guests the youth had ever invited to grace our shores.

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 The NIA’s Chambers of Horror Part III

By Mathew K. Jallow, Associate Editor

Four weeks after the discovery of the body of Biran Jobe in a shallow grave in the woods outside Mandinari village, the anger and bitterness that swept the country was beginning to subside. But, for a segment of the military and security forces, Biran Jobe’s demise and the Sang Pierre saga were Deja Vous all over again. Disillusionment in the military and the other security services were widespread, despite the façade of normalcy that was being presented by the regime.

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Yahya Jammeh’s Horrible Legacy

 By Mathew K Jallow, Associate Editor

In fourteen years, The Gambia has been transformed from a peaceful haven for political and economic migrants from the rest of West Africa, to a country that is unrecognizable to the vast majority of its citizens. In July 1994, when the military seized power, no one expected our country to be awash with the blood of its citizens. Yahya Jammeh’s regime as at every level exemplified the terrible human rights records that Africa is renowned for, and the record proves it.

Ousman Sonko, Abdoulie Kujabie and Yahya Jammeh-Gambia's Triplets of Evil

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Ex-Liberian president's son convicted of torture Story Highlights Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr. is also known as Charles McArthur Emmanuel Prosecutors: Taylor was leader of groups that burned and beat people Taylor guilty of torture and conspiracy to commit torture He is first to be tried under law allowed overseas torture acts to be tried in U.S. From John Couwels CNN (CNN) -- Federal jurors convicted the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor Sr. of torture and conspiracy charges Thursday, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in the southern district of Florida. Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr., also known as Charles McArthur Emmanuel, was found guilty on one count of torture, one count of conspiracy to commit torture and one count of possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime, said Alicia Valle, special counsel to the U.S. attorney.

Charles Taylor, torture victim and Gambia's war criminal Yahya Jammeh

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