The African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) yesterday in a release denounced the massive operation to clear vegetation aback of the villages on the lower East Coast of Demerara in which several Buxton/Friendship cane and cash crop farms have been destroyed, as a “flagrant abuse of the basic, cultural and human rights of African Guyanese.”

The association also said that the Buxton community continues to be traumatized by the “wanton destruction of property, cash crops and fruit trees”.

And ACDA stated further that it views the current exercise, ‘Operation Restore Order’ by the Security Forces in the aftermath of the recent Lusignan massacre as “a fig leaf to appease or pacify PPP constituents.”

The association said it had to repeat its “call for genuine social, economic and political transformation in which all Guyanese share in the patrimony equally.”

ACDA called on all stakeholders to open dialogue and strive for a new Guyana where the lives of all citizens are treated as sacred and the right to earn a decent wage is respected and security is guaranteed to everyone.

ACDA also quoted the late President Desmond Hoyte as contending that “the problem at Buxton is not going to be solved by guns and force