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other leading rapper had not
yet emerged from bed.
While other opposition figures
recently made the pilgrimage
to Touba, Senegal’s
equivalent of Mecca, to consult
with religious leaders —
Mr. Wade often makes the
same trip — Y’En A Marre
refused. “We don’t think
Senegal’s problems are resolved
at Touba,” Mr. Talla
said.
“We are the ones who started
the movement,” he said. “We
said the moment was over for
talking. We think the political
parties have failed.” He
added: “They talk, but the
Senegalese don’t listen.”
The government spokesman,
Serigne Mbacké Ndiaye,
defended progress under Mr.
Wade. “Those who criticize
us governed Senegal for 40
years between 1960 and 2000
and didn’t do a single thing
that would have allowed the
country to develop,” he said.
About the presidential plane,
Mr. Ndiaye said, “This plane
addresses issues of security
and national dignity, and
besides is not the property of
President Wade but of Senegal,”
adding that the plane
also transports the country’s
national sports teams.
Mr. Wade, in a recent interview
with the French newspaper
La Croix, directly
questioned how much influence
the new opposition
group could wield. “The rappers
of Y’En A Marre represent
only themselves.
They’ve got nothing to do
with the youth in the interior
of the country,” he said.
But the size of the recent
demonstrations, and the fact
that Mr. Wade had to back
down from his efforts to
change the Constitution
after one of them on June 23,
appear to indicate something
else.
Y’En A Marre was born in
frustration: at days of cuts in
electricity, at pervasive poverty,
and at a leader who
does not want to give up power.
“One day, there was 20 hours
of cuts,” said Fadel Barro,
33, a journalist and a friend
of the rappers, whose dimly
lit apartment served as the
place where the movement
took shape. “I said: ‘Guys,
everyone knows you. But
you’re not doing anything to
change the country.’ ” Those
words energized the musicians.
The movement’s objective is
simple, Mr. Barro said: “That
they stop making futilities
priorities, like the Monument
de la Renaissance” — the
giant statue — “or buying
new planes. We’re fighting
so that the preoccupations of
the Senegalese return to the
center of politics.”
An Open Court
JUSTIÇA NO EXTERIOR •
THE NEW YORK TIMES (US) • EDITORIALS, OP-ED AND LED • 18/9/2011
The Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press proposed
last week that the Supreme
Court adopt a new
rule saying every document
filed in or by the court “shall
be available to the public for
inspection” unless it orders
that the document be sealed.
That presumption of openness
would be in the interest
of everyone — the Supreme
Court, lawyers who practice
before the court, scholars
who study the court and, of
course, the American public.
It is sometimes necessary to
restrict public access to court
documents — to protect privacy,
genuine secrets and
people in danger, and for
other reasons. But in the last
18 years, the court has gone
from allowing records to be
sealed in two cases per term
to 24 last term out of 9,066
petitions for review. While
the fraction remains tiny, the
increase is disturbing.
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