So, if Skinny and Fineman were PNC criminal operatives, why didn’t government/police take careful steps taken to get them to admit that link and expose their operational base? There hasn’t been a single arrest of a criminal who said he worked with or for the PNC. In fact, most of these criminals have been killed out without being placed before the justice system.

Real justice demands an official investigation, with findings, to determine who were the killers at Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek? All we know is what the government/police tell us. And the fact the so many are inclined to close the door on the massacres simply because Fineman and Skinny are dead shows how deeply duped Guyanese have become by substituting extra judicial killings for real justice. This is dangerous! Anyone can now be labeled a criminal and be killed without people raising a hue and a cry because government/police have duped most into thinking the executed deserved what he got.

There is no real justice in Guyana and so we can expect more murders by criminals and the state!

While your letter so eloquently addreses the issue of whether “Fineman” could have been taken alive, I think there is another discussion we are missing, in that no one knows what kind of reaction would have come from the relatives of the victims.

I think an important piece is missed here. These criminals deliberately targeted ethnic groups in an attempt to create mayhem and racial strife, but thankfully we never bought into it. My question is, do you think with having them alive for a public trial would have been the best thing for us as a country to deal with that?

I think the fact these criminals are dead, eliminates the need for a national discussion on race in that context, however I still feel the discussion is necessary, just not in that context.

Capturing them alive would have given meaning to exactly what they were trying to perpertrate on Guyanese citizens, violence and horror, and I do not think such credence should be given to what they carried out over the last few months.

I think we are missing a valuable opportunity for a national discussion on these issues related to race and the role of our Police in a crime ridden society. Fineman’s death should in no way cloud our judgement on this, for in the end, sad to say, he was just a common criminal.

Sorry, my view!!

Some of the commenters here apparently did not read your sentence for they
seem to fallen prey!
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“The clear and objective thinker, however, would know that emotions can understandably cloud judgment.”

Indeed!