TIMBUKTU — In a speech at a political rally in Talinding in the Gambia on June 1, Pres. Jammeh declared ethnic cleansing against the country’s majority tribe, the Mandinka, by branding them as non-
Gambians who came from Mali. He said the Mandinka are not only his enemy but also an enemy of The Gambia.
Mr. Jammeh has accused the Mandinka of belittling other tribes in The Gambia. He said he is not going to allow ‘donkeys and vermins’ (i.e. referring to the Mandinka) to destroy the 21years of development he brought to the Gambia, noting that the combined 31-year rule of Jawara regime and the 400 years of British colonialism had not done what he has done in terms of development for The Gambia.
He said he was going to crush protesters to death. He vowed that the Mandinka would never rule The Gambia. He said from now on, no demonstration would be tolerated in The Gambia. He said all his enemies both within and outside the country would not live to witness the December 1st 2016 elections.
He told the gathering that the Mandinka are troublemakers, and haters of his regime. Jammeh has vowed to liquidate Mandinka and nothing will come out of it.
Here are excerpts from President Yaya Jammeh’s 10-minute statement.
“In 1864, there were no Mandinka in this country. You came from Mali. I will not allow foreigners to destroy this country.”
“The Mandinka are fond of saying they should bail each other out because The Gambia is a Mandinka nation. This is not a Mandinka country. I have solid evidence that the Mandinka are not from this country. If you don’t behave well, I will deal with you.”
“I will wipe you out and nothing will come out of it. The first demonstration; they were all
Mandinka. The second demonstrators were Mandinka and two Fula people. The Fula have joined the bad guys; welcome to hell. I urge the Mandinka to repent to Allah for your bad deeds. The Mandinka, who the hell do you think you are? You are in the business of demeaning other tribes by calling them “Suruwa-ndingo (small Wolof person), Fula-ndingo (small Fula person), Jola-ndingo (small Jola person). A good Muslim should not behave like the Mandinka. You need to repent.”
“This time around, no police will arrest and charge you. The army would be deployed to shoot and kill anyone found in the streets demonstrating. Just demonstrate and see what will happen to you. I will not send the police. I will send the army to wipe you out and see who is going to talk about it. Bilahi, Walahi Talahi (swear words in Islam). I will kill you like ants and nothing will come out of it.”
“All my enemies and Gambia’s enemies will die before the elections. No policeman, or soldier will arrest you. You will all die one by one before the elections.”
“I will kill you like ants and no western country can do darn thing about it. Who are you to disrespect other tribes? You think you own this country. The Gambia is not a Mandinka country. I swear to God: There will be no Mandinka government in The Gambia. Never! If that fails, let me go to hell if I die.”
“If you don’t know your history, let me tell you that you hailed from Manding in Ancient Mali. What led to your departure from Mali? The Bambara community chased you out from Mali, which led to your resettling in The Gambia. The Mandinka are foreigners in this country.”
“What worries me about the Mandinka is that: The Mandinka hate themselves. You don’t like yourself. Jawara has been in power for over thirty-one years and his worst opponents and enemies were Mandinka. For thirty-one years, the Wolof, Fula, Jola, and other tribes, were Jawara’s biggest supporters. If it were not these people, Jawara wouldn’t even have won for second time. Despite Jawara’s tribalism, it was other tribes that supported Jawara.
“Allah brought me, and you said you are not going to support me. That’s your business. But if you cross my line, you will never cross somebody’s line again.”
“The Minister of Interior is here. From 1994 to date, if 10,000 Gambians were deported from Europe 9,950 were all Mandingos. Who are you? And when you go, you tell lies. In fact, I have granted approval… All those being deported from Australia are Mandinka.”
Like all those providing the decorative fig-leaves of Neocolonialism with their imbecile puppet-regimes to cover up the crimes of Euro-Amerikkkan Imperialism in most parts of Afrika today, Yahya Jammeh has lots to answer for; nevertheless, it must be before organs of the better organised, unifying and collectively self-emancipating masses of our people throughout the continent and diaspora of Afrika that he and all the others answer; and certainly not before that White Supremacist travesty of Justice instrument of Global Apartheid Racism representing institutionalised Afriphobia called the International Criminal Court (ICC)!
Kofi Mawuli Klu
Kofi Mawuli Klu: Let us name and count other African heads of state and governments today that are much better than Jammeh! We must work together for radical Pan-Afrikan grassroots solutions to such a common problem and stop going, one after another, most often naively and myopically but also rather opportunistically, to bring Euro-Amerikkkan imperialist teleguided governmental and non-governmental institutions, agencies and agents to play revolving chairs with their own brand new and old puppets, one elitist buffoon replacing another odious quisling of the same treacherous ilk, only adding insults to the injuries of our Afrikan Wretched of the Earth! We in Ghana now know better from the stupidity of replacing Kutu Acheampong with Jerry John Rawlings and most of his successors! Afrikan progressive forces must strive harder not to have repetitions of such disastrous crimes of foolishness. We must put better up or shut up! Shall we utilise this situation as an opportunity to more seriously work harder at glocally reviving the true global Pan-Afrikan movement from the grassroots of our Communities of Resistance throughout the continent and diaspora of Afrika to practically help our colleagues in Gambia to set a new bolder example of doing so?!? – Mawukofi
This ‘man’ (I apologize to all human beings for using that term) is a disgrace to all Africans whether living or dead!!
He has been allowed to do anything for so long. ECOWAS and AU are just useless orgs
Yaya Jammeh is boorish. He’s uncouth. “Insane” is too nice – it implies he was sane, perhaps way before he become insane. Yaya is not insane, that may have a cure. Yaya suffers from an incurable disease – hate. That indicates one thing, he may have been taken out of the cave, but there’s no way we can take the cave out of him. Yaya is uncouth!
The tendency to worship such characters on the continent has given rise to dictators such as Jammeh ,Museveni who doesnt have any respect for humana lives, we’ve. all forgotten too soon the Rwanda war..where is the AU and Ecowas on this?
Man is a reed, the weakest thin in Nature, but a thinking reed (Blaise Pascal); The mind is the man (Francis Bacon). Yaya is a little soul carrying around a corpse. He is a problem that must puzzle the devil. A living thing in ruins. A machine into which we put what we call food and produce what we call nonsense. I will pour libation for The Gambia, that Amen Ra Himself restores Peace. May the spirit of Ma’at reign supreme. I will pour libation for The Gambian people today, and tomorrow, and the next until Yaya Jammeh is no longer president.
When a leader reaches these levels of depravity, it takes a patriot from the inside to do everybody a favour by removing him.Someone he trusts. You can see he has gone for broke. He doesn’t care anymore. The end is near, either from a conspiracy of madinka from across West Africa, or an insider. Senegal will be the obstacle. The wollof community there might see him as their own, but it takes a simple realizability that he poses a threat even to his own people.
He doesn’t belong to the wollofs and he will never be backed by the wollof. ….
Even his own tribe are not with him anymore….
The man is a real joke. Can’t believe he is leading a nation. It’s time to rise up and remove him SMDH
Africa must remove him at all costs
Smdh. He has lost it. Does he have mental health issues?
I am surprised you guys are writing thesis (LOL) about this buffoon of a leader of a nation in Africa. He deserves no attention my fellow countrymen
It is a curse to have such a primitive psychopath and hater leading Gambians who are all related. This man is evil and want to destroy Gambia but also her existence and rich diversity.
Perhaps this is the ending Jemmeh leadership because when the dictator is about to fall he/she behaves just like this