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Jun 21, 2018 News
A sombre atmosphere enveloped the Brickdam Cathedral yesterday when close relatives and friends converged to share memories of the eight men who lost their lives in the tragic Lindo Creek massacre ten years ago.
The men – Bonny Harry, Horace Drakes, Dax Arokium, Cecil Arokium, Nigel Torres, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee and Compton Spiers – were killed, then burnt at a mining camp at Lindo Creek, upper Berbice River on or about June 21, 2008.
While few families had held individual memorial services days after the deaths, the service yesterday was the first to be held where all family members would join together to mourn the deaths of the men.
The incident was described as a stain on Guyana’s history, with the Coalition Government ordering an inquiry, the findings of which have not yet been made known.
There were debates whether the men were killed by mistake by personnel from a Joint Services group or by the gang of the now dead Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins, a wanted man who was killed in Timehri.
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