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Can We Say Aufwiedersehen to Justice? Josè Marìa Jones Nearly a year after the signing of a white sepulcre and much cosmetic peace accord with loudations from the western world the political impasse in Sierra Leone has increased with daily new dimension. In that accord ranks and duties were shared among elephants that rock horns. Sankoh is made vice president of Republic of Sierra Leone; he is answerable to no one but president Kabbah himself.He is made chairman of the strategic mineral resources,this gives him right over eighty percent of the country`s revenue;he is also a chieftain to the ruling council.While JonnyPaul Koroma, the man who first made Kabbah say aufwiedersehen to Hill Station(Sierra Leone president`s official residence) in a coup d’etat in 1996,and latter a rebel leader of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council(AFRC) and now a good boy to Kabbah’s octopus government is now in charge of the so called Rehabilitation and consolidation committee.His office sees to it the payment of bonuses to the disarmed soldiers. The trio have pitched tents of loudations and sycophancy among Sierra
Leoneans and friends;who see them as president par excellent, rock
of the nation ,redeemers ,and revolutionaries.The Times Concord newspaper
of Sierra Leone,a sycophant of Kabbah has taken to be addressing
Kabbah as ‘’papa’’,`gray hair and wisdom’’; while the rebels and government`s
oppositions are seen as personae non gratiae , treacherous persons or anti-patria
elements by the media organs in Sierra Leone that
pretend to be liberal in much of government controlled and sponsored
news.In a country where one`s weltanschauung has to be in pari-passum to
that of the rulers and the political hotshots; an orthodoxy and a
cankerworm that has eaten deep into the very fibre of the nation`s socio-political
culture,a brain-watching machine for the masses of the state by the
dictators since the days of Siaka Steven.Whose government of Mobutuism
brought great woes, far lagging behind in development to a
solid mineral riched country; yet Sierra Leoneans saw him as
an incarnate of Bai Bureh or Nyugua.(Bureh was a Sierra-leonean who fought
against the introdution of hut tax by the British colonial masters
in Sierra- leone.Bai Bureh honour is the highest mediale for
gallantry.) Kabbah was in last year addressed as Bai Bureh traditional
rurers in the north province..
So,live the shackles of brutal war that ended with justice denied on the real victims of war.It remains an indelieble mark in mental,spirit and body of a Sierra-leonean. Sierra-leoneans were in Lome,Togo denied of justice and a new weltanschuung of Machiavellism taught by Kabbah and Sankoh. For it reddens mind, and Sierra-leoneans find it hard to believe how Kabbah offered a blanket amnesty to Sankoh and the post of vice-president,chairman of the strategic mineral resources ;and his satanic movement of Revolutionary United Front(RUF) which went on inflicting hardship of sexual rape,maim,slavery ,abduction and killing of civilians both sucklings in the name of revolution turned and be registered as a political party .Sankoh a persona non gratia to Sierra-leoneans is now a political playmate of Kabbah and a big brother to parliamentarians in Freetown,whom(the Freetown political class,the bourgeoisie )he had vowed to eliminate when he started 1991 his campaign``no slave,no master``.Kabbah has been called a homo perfidia because ,by that act of favour on Sankoh to the detriment of justice and the state he has lost confidence the citizens mighty have had on him;It is a great cheat and rape on the people since he did this power sharing with Sankoh inorder for him to remain in power.He did the will of the RUF and it´s Liberian, Burkinabe,Libya n and Western diamond merchants(Belgium)supporters.(see Quo Vadis Sierra-leonia) and never the will of the citizens of Sierra-leone who long for justice. I have tried several times to see reason to support the action of Kabbah as means of bringing peace and normancy into the political impasse state but at every end something keep on asking me `´what would Anne,a three week old baby whose two limbs were amputatad,Abu Sesay,a one month old baby whose hand and leg were amputated, Tessy,a five year old girl who was raped and forced to watch her parents battered to death by the dischanted armed opposittion group, N`Damba a six year amputee,who keep on asking her mother if her hand could grow again(cf JM Jones, poem,Echoe from the Forst,1999),Cynthia who was raped several times (cf.Radio Netherlands,06,march 2000),think of the society and life seeing the man who destroyed them offered the post of the vice president and possibly future president. They will surely grow up and see RUF as a political party.Is it not more than draging someone to golgotha .Do we think they would accept Kabbah`s kangaroo peace accord or how does think these children would look at the society in which they were born ? I think these children would seek a revenge and this will create a catena of unrest and anarchy in the state. Every blame goes to Kabbah because he failed to know that punishment
is an essential ingridient to bringing sane into a culprite. It serves
as a derttering measure to others,act as a guide to the observance of law.``
Rewards and Punishments are two sides of an absract coin, normative prescriptions
for order in a state`` cf Poiltical Order by Uriel Rosenthal, ph.D, Erasmus
University Rotherdams,The Netherland. "Government new offer to Foday
Sankoh will encourage the youths to do evil and it is a big problem
to the disarment"--Lisa Speiser. Kabbah`s request on the Sierra leoneans
to forgive is an impossible act; because,a sanguine mea culpa is a conditio
sinequa non to any forgiveness.We can never aufwiedersehen this fact.
*** The only way to stop African war brutalities is to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes at the International War Crime Tribunal. Justice now or never. |
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