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Mevater




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Feb 16 2015, 5:57 pm


Buddies!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Jammeh

I saw this on someone's Facebook page and Im ROFL.

How is Obama OK with this?

"Homosexuality[edit]
Further information: LGBT rights in the Gambia
On May 15, 2008, Jammeh announced that his government would introduce legislation that would set laws against homosexuals that would be "stricter than those in Iran", and that he would "cut off the head" of any gay or lesbian person discovered in the country.[19] News reports indicated his government intended to execute all homosexuals in the country.[19] In the speech given in Tallinding, Jammeh gave a "final ultimatum" to any gays or lesbians in the Gambia to leave the country.[19]

In a speech to the United Nations on September 27, 2013, Jammeh said that "[h]omosexuality in all its forms and manifestations which, though very evil, antihuman as well as anti-Allah, is being promoted as a human right by some powers," and that those who do so "want to put an end to human existence."[20]

On February 18, 2014, Jammeh called homosexuals "vermins" by saying that "We will fight these vermins called homosexuals or gays the same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes, if not more aggressively,". He also went on to disparage the LGBT by saying that "As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis; all of which are detrimental to human existence".[21][22]"

Claims of medical treatments and cures[edit]
In January 2007, Jammeh claimed he could cure HIV/AIDS and asthma with natural herbs.[23][24] His claimed treatment program includes instructing patients to cease taking their anti-retroviral drugs.[25][26] His claims have been criticized for promoting unscientific treatment that could have dangerous results, due to the belief that those discharged from his program cannot infect others.[23][24] In December 2011, he restated during an interview that the alleged cure for HIV/AIDS was "going very well".[27]

Fadzai Gwaradzimba, the country representative of the United Nations Development Programme in the Gambia, was told to leave the country after she expressed doubts about the claims and said the remedy might encourage risky behaviour.[28] In August 2007, Jammeh claimed to have developed a single dose herbal infusion that could treat high blood pressure.[29] Jammeh has also claimed to develop a treatment for infertility in women as part of what is called the President's Alternative Treatment Program (PATP).[30][31][32]

Criticism[edit]

An electoral sign supporting Yahya Jammeh.
Restrictions to press freedom[edit]
Jammeh has been accused of restricting freedom of the press. Harsh new press laws were followed by the unsolved killing of Deyda Hydara, editor of The Point tabloid. Hydara, who had been mildly critical of the Jammeh regime, was brutally gunned down in December 2004.[38]

Alhagie Martin, one of Jammeh’s closest military aides, has been named in connection with Hydara's killing. It has, however, not been possible to verify the allegation linking Martin with Hydara's slaying. It is widely believed that Jammeh is responsible for Hydara's murder.[39] Jammeh has denied that security agents were involved in the killing.[40]

In April 2004 he called on journalists to obey his government "or go to hell". In June 2005 he stated on radio and television that he has allowed "too much expression" in the country.[41]

In July 2006, journalist Ebrima Manneh of The Daily Observer was reportedly arrested by state security after attempting to republish a BBC report criticizing Jammeh shortly before an African Union meeting in Banjul; his arrest was witnessed by coworkers.[42] Though ordered to release Manneh by an Economic Community of West African States court, the Gambian government denied that Manneh was imprisoned.[43]

According to AFP, an unnamed police source confirmed Manneh's arrest in April 2009, but added he believed Manneh "is no longer alive".[43] Amnesty International named Manneh a prisoner of conscience and a 2011 "priority case".[44] The Committee to Protect Journalists has also called for his release.[42]

Alleged human rights abuses[edit]
Shooting of students[edit]
On 10 and 11 April 2000, the government was accused in the killing of 12 students and a journalist during a student demonstration to protest the death of a student in the Gambia. Jammeh was accused of ordering the shooting of the students, but the government denied the allegations. A government commission of inquiry reportedly concluded that the Police Intervention Unit (PIU) officers were "largely responsible" for many of the deaths and other injuries.[45]

The commission also said that five soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Battalion were responsible for the deaths of two students at Brikama. The government stated that the report implicated several PIU officers in the students' deaths and injuries, but those responsible were not prosecuted.[46]

Disappearances and imprisonments[edit]
Newspaper reports list dozens of individuals who have disappeared after being picked up by men in plain-clothes, and others who have languished under indefinite detention for months or years without charge or trial.[47] The regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court ordered the Gambia government to produce one journalist who was disappeared.[48][49][50]

Witch hunting campaign[edit]
In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored "witch doctors" on charges of witchcraft, and taken to detention centers where they were forced to drink poisonous concoctions.[51] On 21 May 2009, The New York Times reported that the alleged witch-hunting campaign had been sparked by the President Yahya Jammeh, who believed that the death of his aunt earlier that year could be attributed to witchcraft.[52]

Massacre of migrants[edit]
Jammeh has also been linked with the 2004 massacre of 44 Ghanaian migrants and 10 other ECOWAS nationals.[53][54][55]

Death penalty[edit]
Though previously regarded by Amnesty International as "abolitionist in practice", having had no executions since 1985,[56] on 27 August 2012, the Gambian government confirmed that nine prisoners were executed by firing squad.[57] This followed President Jammeh's stated intention to carry out all death penalties before mid-September amid protests from the European Union countries and others.[58]
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MagentaYenta




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Feb 16 2015, 6:47 pm
International relations takes place out of the public eye. I certainly am not privy to the convos of diplomates. I wouldn't worry as long as the US isn't threatening to cut off financial aid to Israel.
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Mevater




 
 
    
 

Post Mon, Feb 16 2015, 6:52 pm
MagentaYenta wrote:
International relations takes place out of the public eye. I certainly am not privy to the convos of diplomates. I wouldn't worry as long as the US isn't threatening to cut off financial aid to Israel.


NP, Ive got different sensitivities though. Once a Pres is clearly involved in other countries' election process, as is clearly the case here, with V15, Im uncomfortable.
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