Dokument #1266805
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1) The attached excerpt from the Gambia
section from Africa Contemporary Record states that the
Movement for Justice in Africa (Moja-G) is the group which
published an underground newspaper, The Voice of the Future.
The leaders of Moja-G escaped prosecution for publishing the paper
on a technicality, according to the Africa Contemporary
Record article. The group drew its support from disaffected
youth in the Banjul-Serrekunda conurbation and attacked the PPP
government and the country's colonial past. The Europa publication
Africa South of the Sahara 1989 further states that Moja-G
had ideological affinities with a movement with the same name in
Liberia, which worked for the eventually successful overthrow of
the Tolbert regime in that country. This source adds that this self
styled Marxist group rejected parliamentary opposition as futile
and advocated extreme political measures. Degenhardt's
Revolutionary and Dissident Movements states that the group
was under investigation by the authorities for the burning of boats
in Gambian ports and that the founder of Moja-G, Koro Sallah, was
killed in an attempted coup in July 1981.
2) The Gambia section from Africa South
of the Sahara 1989 states that the Gambia Socialist
Revolutionary Party has a similar following and political platform
as Moja-G.
3) No information is available to the IRBDC
regarding The Gambia Anti-Apartheid Society.
4) Both Revolutionary and Dissident
Movements and Africa Contemporary Record mention the
Field Force in connection with an unsuccessful coup attempt in July
1981. Both these sources state that whatever support the rebels had
among the population of Banjul was dispelled because of the
widespread violence and looting prompted by the rebels and the
Field Force. No further information is available to the IRBDC
regarding the activities of the Force.
5) No further information, besides that
contained in Amnesty International reports and the Department of
State reports, is available to the IRBDC regarding alleged
intimidation of opposition parties by the People's Progressive
Party.
ATTACHMENTS
Legum, Colin, ed. Africa
Contemporary Record. New York: Africana Publishing Company,
1987. B23-B29.
Africa South of the Sahara 1989.
London: Europa Publications Ltd, 1989. 501-503.
Degenhardt, Henry, ed. Revolutionary
and Dissident Movements. Essex: Longmans UK Ltd, 1988. 122.