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Thursday, March 30, 2023

URGENT Message to Resident Diplomatic Representatives in Senegal from Pape Ale Niang

 Dakar Matin - 29/03/2023

 


Dear diplomats, 

You pride yourself on being « friends of Senegal ». For a long time you have observed Senegal going straight towards chaos. So much has it become fertile ground for non-respect of the basic rights of democracy, of human rights. 

Fundamental freedoms are flouted in full view of everyone. From now on it is the dictatorial forfeiture in broad daylight without restraint and without shame. 

You know it and you see it every day. 

  • Do you consider normal the conditions under which the leader of Pastef was brought to court by manu-militari? 
  • Do you consider it normal that Sonko is sequestered in his home without any court decision or legal basis. 

The Senegalese live this dictatorial forfeiture in a stoic way and intend to fight to put an end to it. At the same time our « dear friends » take pleasure in a culpable and complicit silence. 

You can perfectly use your empty diplomatic formulas like « We are paying particular attention to the worrying political situation in Senegal ». But radio silence. 

Obviously the strategy of distilled terror seems to have reached you


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