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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by kobo[/i] [br][b]1.[/b] [b][size=4][url="http://foroyaa.gm/editorial/14723-16-december-and-deyda-s-murder-is-still-hanging-in-the-air"]16 DECEMBER AND DEYDA’S MURDER IS STILL HANGING IN THE AIR[/url][/size=4][/b] Published Monday December, 16 2013 When people die unnatural deaths, the conscience of the living cannot be clear until the motive for killing them becomes known. Deyda did not seek any political office. Hence, he was not a political foe to anyone. He did not write anything that is beyond the ordinary that could not be addressed with words and rejoinders. He was simply amplifying the voices of Gambians with dissenting opinions and those who stood for the status quo. It was balanced reporting with particular objective of holding the government accountable to the Governed and making each person accountable for one’s deeds as an employee of the state or a private person. All fair minded persons are convinced that Deyda did not do anything to anyone that made him to deserve being shot to death with many bullets. How could anyone with a clear conscience sleep and then wake up to look at ones children and wife knowing that one has deprived a wife and children their father for no just cause. Any one has the ability to hide and kill a person. This does not require any bravery. All it needs is to starve ones heart of love and one’s mind of rationality so that one could see the victim as an object rather than a human being. [url="http://foroyaa.gm/editorial/14723-16-december-and-deyda-s-murder-is-still-hanging-in-the-air"]SOURCE: Foroyaa News: Editorial[/url] [b]2.[/b] [b][size=4][url="http://www.maafanta.com/dajawodeynineyearsimpunity"]Deyda Hydara: Nine Years of Impunity[/url][/size=4] By D.A. Jawo[/b] This Monday (16th December) is yet another anniversary of the assassination of prominent Gambian journalist, Deyda Hydara, the ninth year since he was brutally murdered by unknown assailants while he was driving home from work. Ironically, the killing happened near the perimeter fence of the Tactical Support Group (paramilitary police) headquarters on the busy Serekunda-Banjul highway, and yet, they claim not to have been aware of the shooting. There is also as yet no indication that the Gambian authorities have any intentions of investigating the case with a view to apprehending those responsible for this heinous crime. However, instead of putting in all necessary efforts to find out who killed Deyda and why, the Gambian authorities appear quite unconcerned about the case. In fact every time President Jammeh comments on the case, he makes some ambiguous remarks which tend to confuse rather than clarify his government’s stand point on the issue. A case in point was his last interview with the BBC in which he compared Deyda’s brutal murder to the deaths of other Gambians in road accidents, asking why anyone should be more concerned about Deyda’s death than those Gambians who have died in other circumstances, thus further dashing any hopes that the authorities have any intentions of investigating the case...... [url="http://www.maafanta.com/dajawodeynineyearsimpunity"]SOURCE: Maafanta.com & Full Report[/url] [b]3.[/b] [b][size=4][url="http://www.maafanta.com/gpudeydanineyearsanniversary"]GPU STATEMENT ON THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF DEYDA HYDARA[/url][/size=4][/b] Compatriots, Journalists and Friends of the Media, Monday, December 16 2013 will mark the ninth anniversary of the gruesome murder of Deyda Hydara, the heroic co-proprietor and managing editor of The Point Newspaper. He was assassinated in a drive-by shooting. Yet the gunmen behind this nefarious act are yet to be arrested and brought to book. The Gambia Press Union once again calls on the Government of The Gambia to expend all its efforts and tools to investigate this matter in order to bring the culprits to book. Failure to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to book will only entrench a culture of impunity in our society, which is inimical to democracy. It is the responsibility of the Government to protect the right to life of all Gambians as enshrined in Section 18 of the 1997 constitution, which states, ‘No person shall be deprived of his or her life intentionally of right to life except in the execution of a sentence of death imposed by a court of competent jurisdiction in respect of a criminal offence for which the penalty is death under the Laws of The Gambia as they have effect in accordance with subsection (2) and of which he or she has been lawfully convicted’. Thus the Government of the Gambia should move heaven and earth to bringing these criminals to book as this barbaric act has no place in a civilized democratic society. The murder of Deyda is a fundamental human rights violation that goes against the very essence of our constitution and all regional and international instruments that the Gambia has ratified. These include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, hence the responsibility to ensure justice prevails and the protection of human rights in our society lies squarely in the hands of the Government...... [url="http://www.maafanta.com/gpudeydanineyearsanniversary"]SOURCE: Maafanta.com & Full Report[/url] [b]4.[/b] Related Point News; [list][*][b][size=4][url="http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/profile-of-the-late-deyda-hydara-the-prince-of-the-pen"]Profile of the late Deyda Hydara: The Prince of the Pen[/url][/size=4][/b] [/*] [*] [b][size=4][url="http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/tribute-by-deyda-hydaras-children-1"]Tribute by Deyda Hydara’s children[/url][/size=4][/b] [/*] [*] [b][size=4][url="http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/killers-of-deyda-hydara-must-be-brought-to-book-gpu"]Killers of Deyda Hydara must be brought to book - GPU[/url][/size=4][/b] [/*] [*] [b][size=4][url="http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/govt-tasked-to-re-open-investigations-9-years-after-deyda-hydaras-murder"]Govt. tasked to re-open investigations, 9 years after Deyda Hydara’s murder[/url][/size=4][/b] [/*][/list] [b]5.[/b] Related Bantaba topics; [list][*][b][size=4][url="http://www.gambia.dk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12834"] Murder of Deyda Hydara 8thAnniversary[/url][/size=4][/b][/*] [*][b][size=4][url="http://www.gambia.dk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12982"] Deydra Hydara jnr. case in ECOWAS court.[/url][/size=4][/b][/*][/list] [b]6.[/b] American Street News [b][size=3][url="http://americanstreetnews.com/news/deyda-hydara-family-loses-case-at-ecowas-court"]Deyda Hydara family loses case at Ecowas Court[/url][/size=3][/b] [b]7.[/b] ECOWAS Court Press Release: [b][size=2][url="http://www.courtecowas.org/site2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=208:ecowascourtdeliversrulingsonallegedhumanright&catid=14:pressrelease&Itemid=36"]ECOWAS COURT DELIVERS RULINGS ON ALLEGED HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATIONS INVOLVING REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA, AND ECOWAS COMMISSION[/url][/size=2][/b] [b]8.[/b] Freedom online news also report [b][size=2][url="http://www.freedomnewspaper.com/Homepage/tabid/36/newsid367/9376/WHAT-DO-YOU-SAY-ABOUT-A-MAN-WHOS-Given-EVERYTHING-FOR-NOTHING/Default.aspx"]WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT A MAN WHO’S Given EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING?[/url][/size=2][/b] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.