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Dec 17, 2018 Letters
Dear Editor,
I have read the letter by Robin Singh, that was published by Stabroek News 8th December, 2018. I cannot from where I stand and from what I have experienced, support any suggestion of a reconciliation commission, when Robin Singh’s letter in its posture exhibits the very presumptuous dishonesty on matters that are still alive in the dreams of many of us today. One must first embrace an era in totality regardless of how uncomfortable that process is, and not in selective self serving extracts.
Atonement and reconciliation are a process in reference to populations and not to the sinister architects who perpetrated with cold calculative intentions, facilitating mass murder and marginalisation along racial lines, creating an atmosphere that some lives are to be sacrificed on some political cultic alter as in the latter days with the assassination of Courtney Crum-Ewing who was shot three times to the head and twice to the body, circumstantial evidence led to Anil Nandlall’s former body guard, from erroneous statements made by Nandlall about his obsessed Caste status, how did the ego of the Kshatriyas [chatree] imagination translate to the value of Courtney’s life? The emergence of the ‘Fine Man gang’ is late in the events that envelop what has to be taken into full analysis in the context of our recent history of the Roger Khan-Jagdeo tragedy. Fine-Man and his gang are a consequence not the genesis.
Atonement is the ancient prototype of the truth and reconciliation idea. It constitutes the ritual sacrifice of animals over a period. Yes, it revolves around a blood sacrifice, perceived by the ancients as a cleansing rite. The 20th century translation of Atonement evolved with the trials at Nuremberg post 1945 and is today further modified at The Hague International Criminal court. Reconciliation exists between populations, in our situation the constituencies of the major political parties.
But is not extended to the political architects who conspired to murder, marginalise, cultivate hatreds, and as correctly defined by Freddie Kissoon, to practice Ideological racism and damage the values of a nation, traumatising a perceived opposition constituency for their own political existence. The first victim of this racist innate practice was a coconut seller on Mandela Avenue who was randomly shot by newly appointed PPP ministerial guards early in 1993. His crime was his ethnicity. By 1996, we were protesting by the multitude for the murder of Jermaine Wilkinson.
During that period, I visited the office of Desmond Hoyte and insisted that he come to Albouystown. Leon Fraser and Steve Merai [Merai especially] would emerge in the forefront of these killings. To lead the above the Law ‘Death Squad’, the era of extra-judicial killings and the criminalisation of the GPF had commenced, with a severe bias.
There are things that were told to me by a senior businessman now deceased that I am reluctant to mention, but I must refer to the information that he shared with me concerning the usage of the ‘James’ brothers by the PPP in the 60’s, and the let loose conduct of Janet Jagan that led to the hanging of one of them after a serious prison altercation where a warder lost his life.
The existing attitude with the Black clothes that this businessman insisted on, was a political conclusion that grass root Afro Guyanese constituted the thug elements of Georgetown protests, thus they would be eliminated under any suspicion of wrong doing, without any recourse to the Laws of the Land.
This is proven true when in 1997, the GNCB bank at Anna Regina was robbed and a young policeman Richard Faikall fought them off single-handedly and lost his life. The Black clothes were told to stand down because at the head of the Bank robber gang was the known PPP assassin ‘Dougla Alfred’, Tulsi Persaud among others, the GPF is still to acknowledge this policeman’s bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. In 1998, the PPP’s Guyana exited the UN Human Rights body, exempting them from adhering to any of its obligations; Clement Rohee was the Foreign Minister at that time.
On the 16th January 2001, the 1997 elections was nullified, on the grounds its procedures contravened the constitution, denying some 30,000 voters from casting their vote, this act rendered the existence of the controversial Janet Jagan term as President null and void.
In 2002, they constructed the Procurement act, the tenets of this act was constructed to empower the manufactured PPP contractors once defined as fishermen turn contractor, while rendering the Afro Guyanese contractors and all others outside of subordination to ‘Freedom House’ to sub-contractors, the people at the Tender Board remained silent. As from 2015, the later contractors complained, the sinister construct of that act had to wait until the swearing in of the Procurement Commission in 2016 with Chairperson Carol Corbin to understand how Ideological racism is inserted in the Laws.
“The procuring entity shall establish no criterion, requirement or procedure with respect to the qualifications of the suppliers or contractors that discriminate against or against categories thereof on the basis of nationality’. The latter from discriminate should be considered harmful, but that the Procurement Act does not by Law itself provide for the accommodation of the 20% intended by the APNU-AFC government brings into question the philosophy of the PPPC in designing this Act. Fine man and his gang who conducted the Lusignan massacre are now dead or in prison. How does anyone tell the relatives of the Lindo Creek massacre, who from its inception sources from the Joint services had indirectly pointed to the guilty as persons assigned to them, and I had maintained in my letter to the media? The Home Affairs Minister and the Prime Minister of the PPP had presented themselves to lie to the head of that mining operation and the grieving families on this matter. How do you tell these families to forgive on some superficial pretext? Which would constitute a denial of justice, how do you tell the mothers of sons never allowed to bury their children to forgive the high official who George ‘Bumbalay’ Bacchus said on 28 TV had instructed them, meaning he, the informant, and his government death squad colleagues, not to throw the ‘bodies they murdered all over the place’.
Many of the people killed, like the Baker brothers were not criminals but citizens with civil contentions with people who had money to pay the death squad members and their affiliates, to commit murder because the State had facilitated this platform. I can understand knowing all this, why Minister Volda Lawrence lost it and said what she should have done rather than said.
As a citizen, I hold the APNU-AFC accountable especially when I hear the Leader of the PPP and Leslie Ramsammy, and those people who have damaged this country so much, pretending not to be the twisted demented people they are, masquerading a facade of normalcy, its tantamount to witnessing Adolf Eichmann as part of the Government of Israel or as an opinion maker of that state. Yes this nation needs to be cleansed but not through a Reconciliation Commission but through our courts and the Hague Court of crimes against Humanity.
Barrington Braithwaite
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