Your Excellency and Dear Brother,
I send you the respect and felicitation-is of tile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and tile people of Sierra Leone, As we, as a people, go through this most difficult period -in the current political and social crisis, even as we are confronted with prospects of a bleak and apparently uncertain future,-c, let me take this opportunity to thank Your Excellency for helping, with your stance, to avert a military intervention in our country by Nigeria-lead ECOMOG forces. May God Bless You.
Six years of bitter and bloody rebel war have decimated a sizeable percentage of our population foddering iii its wake from babies unbom, to the cream of our youth to our respected and aged. This nation Still deeply mourns their loss. Foreign military intervention on our soil would most probably have landed us with a devastation and carnage that would have been too horrendous even to ponder, because of the delicate state of affairs the nation currently finds itself in.
Sanctions and embargoes are now being proposed as the alternative to military intervention. Your Excellency, please forgive the people of Sierra Leone for seeing this form of punitive action as slow and painful death through starvation and disease, being used as an -alternative to fast and violent termination of life. We consider this sad and unfortunate, considering the fact that the alternative of negotiation and dialogue do not appear to future much on tile agenda for the peaceful resolution of the conflict.
We, tile members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, have expressed our desire and willingness for the reconvening of negotiations and in consonance with the wishes of the people of Sierra Leone to negotiate a speedy return to constitutional rule. I here reiterate this commitment and simultaneously request Your Excellency to use your good offices to save the people of Sierra Leone from the clutches of calamity by making available to them facilities that have been made open to other nations in similar situation namely:
Your Excellency, permit me to recall that we are talking about a people that have been described as one of the poorest if not the poorest in the world.
The situation in my country is grave, As African to African-n, ‘I beg you to listen to our side of the story for)r the sake of the poor and suffering people of Sierra Leone and in the name of God, peace and mercy.
Please accept, Your Excellency, my considerations of highest esteem.
- KOROMA
- Major
- Chairman - Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
- and Head of State, Republic of Sierra Leone
