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Abdoukarim Jammeh who is physically challenged owing to bullet injuries he sustained during a popular student demonstration in The Gambia on April 10-11, 2000 – has renewed calls for the government to set the dates as school holidays.
14 people (12 students) were killed and many sustained life
threatening injuries when Gambian security officers fired live ammunitions on
demonstrators.
The demonstrations followed the death of a student who was reportedly
maltreated by the Fire Service and the reported rape of a young school girl by
a Paramilitary Officer.
On Tuesday, April 09, 2013, Jammeh who walked into the office of The
Voice newspaper said: “I am renewing my call to The Gambia government to
consider making April 10 and 11 school holidays to allow students to commemorate
their fallen colleagues”.
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Jammeh said 13 years has gone since the killing of the students and
nothing of a memorial has ever been observed. “These are people who should not
be forgotten,” he said.
For this reason, he said “this day should serve as a day of
remembering the students who died and those who were injured”. Jammeh also said he and others who are now
physically challenged still need support for medical treatment and education. Source: The Voice
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