SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE

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SIERRA LEONE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE

PDL

PUBLIC RELEASE STATEMENT. Date: 5 May 2007.
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Subject:

"SUPPORT FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF PRIME MINISTER
LANSANA KOUYATEH OF THE REPUBLIC OF GUINEA".

Statement:

I received with shock and consternation the news of
rampant shooting in neighbouring Guinea by young
officers of the Guinean armed forces, and wish to
express my heartfelt support for the government of
Prime Minister Lansana Kouyateh. Our Organisation, the
Sierra Leone People's Democratic League (PDL) strongly
condemn the action of these young officers that has
resulted to deaths of civilians and looting of
valuable property across the country.

Creating public panic, harassing the civilian
population and looting property are regarded as
shameful, disgraceful and uncivilized behaviours; and
what is happening in Guinea is tantamount to lead to
the same outcome of the imperialist sponsored coup of
1992 in Sierra Leone, which brought the vicious
military junta of Captain Valentine Strasser to power.
I believe whatever grudge the young officers from the
Guinean army may have against their commanders since
the last nine years must be channel in a more
civilized way than threatening public law and order.

I am indeed worried about developments in our sister
African neighbours, but whatever the young officers
are doing is not that they like doing it if only they
are not incited by loyalists of the dictator Lansana
Conte, who want to design a situation that can be used
as an excused to usurp power illegally, through the
force of arms. I call upon all commanders of the
various units of the armed forces of Guinea to
immediately call their men to barracks and restore
calm in the country. The Guinean Army commanders owe
it a duty and responsibility to arrest this
condemnable act, which can further taint the image of
our continent.

The Sierra Leone People's Democratic League (PDL) had
stood behind the people of Guinea in the past, and we
will continue to support the rights and democratic
freedoms of our African brothers and sisters. And in
solidarity with the Guinean people, the PDL condemns
unequivocally these developments and warns that any
attempt by the Guinean Army to subvert the
Constitution of the Republic of Guinea would be
counterproductive and would be resisted. The inaction
by the Chief of Army Staff to arrest the situation
only amounts to collaboration with the crudest of
action to abort the democratic process in Guinea.

The only conclusion that we can draw from this madness
is that the Guinean Army is not happy with the
government of Prime Minister Lansana Kouyateh that has
placed the interests of the Guinean people above
individual self-aggrandisements. By pushing young
officers into this primitive act, the Guinean Army
declares that it is not interested in democracy,
freedom and happiness of the Guinean people, but just
one more Gestapo, concerned with maintaining its
monopoly of power above all else.

Down with the forces of greed!

Sender:

Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
Chairman and Leader of the Sierra Leone People's
Democratic League (PDL); Presidential Aspirant for the
presidency of the Republic of Sierra Leone; and
National Committee member of the African Unification
Front (AUF), Canada.

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