If Changlee is to be taken seriously, he would do well to read and learn of our history

Dec 08, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I was appalled at a letter written by Mr. Jamil Changlee. I don’t know who this gentleman is or where he grew up, but what is clear is that whether he is young, middle aged or senior, he knows little of our experiences and the tone of his letter suggests a disdain for Guyanese of African descent or those who seek to defend their rights and to speak up against the injustice directed against slaves and their descendants on to this day.

Changlee further seemed to be influenced by the propaganda that has existed for many years but stepped up in the mid-50s, when Guyana was destabilised and damaged when this racial anthem of “Apan Jaat” resonated throughout this country causing mayhem and the division of communities into warring, racial camps. Certainly, the architects of Apan Jaat could not have been the APNU/AFC grouping. Changlee conveniently ignores the killing of more African people than Indians as a result of the civil strike.

He does not know or conveniently ignores the horrors committed against black people at Tain Village, the Mahaica – Mahaicony Creeks and the bombing of the Son Chapman, where all of the fifty-odd victims were Afro Guyanese. Has Changlee read the revelations of the Bacchus brothers who lived in Princes Street, Lodge?

Is he aware who caused the death of Arthur Abraham and his family in Hadfield Street? I do not wish to burden this letter with sordid details that I recall as a youngster, but if Changlee is serious about creating a Guyana he talks about, he must begin by making statements which are balanced and not hurtful to only one group. He must stop this nonsense, started a long time ago, which dismisses the group of people who are the most humiliated and sometimes hunted down as the evil ones.

An examination will show it is quite the opposite and if Changlee is to be taken seriously, he would do well to read and learn of our history, perhaps beginning with the Book, ‘Blood on the River,’ and speak with the likes of myself and others, who have been around for a few decades and have witnessed atrocities committed on both sides and by both sides of the political and ethnic divide.

Regards,

Eric Moseley, MS.

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