The United Nations (UN) Independent Expert on Minority issues, Gay McDougal met last Wednesday with a delegation from the People’s National Congress Reform and the party gave an account of what it called “a disturbing trend in human rights violations“ among other issues.
In a statement issued last Wednesday the party said PNCR Leader Robert Corbin headed the delegation which also included party chairman Winston Murray, chief whip Lance Carberry and executive members Aubrey Norton and Clarissa Riehl.
McDougal was accompanied by UN Human Rights Officer Graham Fox who is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and Wedna Cambridge of the United Nations Development Programme.
The statement said Corbin also discussed the torture of citizens, discrimination in terms of the allocation of resources, repeated breaches of the constitution and the control of the media and the biased reporting of violent events which have exacerbated race relations.
According to the party, McDougal was grateful for the detailed and factual presentation of the PNCR and allowed that it helped her to have a better appreciation of the situation in Guyana.
While here McDougal also met with members of the government, civil society organizations and other groups. McDougal is to present a report on her discussions and analysis to the UN Human Rights Council in March next year. The PNCR said McDougal informed that her visit was in effect a follow-up to that of the UN Rapporteur on Racism.
Ooooh soooo scary!!! I am shaking,what will happen now? Heads will roll!
GUY123 HAVE A LIL FAITH NAH MAN , WE IN AMERICA WILL HAVE A LIL PROTEST OUTSIDE THE UN OFFICE IN THE FALL JUST TO REMIND THEM
HAVE FAITH MY FELLOW GUYANESE
I HOPE THE UNITED NATION TAKE NOTE AND PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO THE NUMEROUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN GUYANA
THE ABUSE OF POLITICAL POWER, GPF AND GDF ABUSE OF POWER
AND OVER 200 PLUS GUYANESE MURDER BY THE PHANTOM SQUAD, THE UNSOLVED MUDERS OF SO MANY GUYANESE WOMEN AND MEN , THE TOTAL BREAKDOWN IN LAW AND ORDER, RAPES, INCEST, THE LIST IS TOO LONG
……the list is too long indeed !,, can u imagine it started in ‘66 !
I GUESS YOU ARE REFERRING TO THE PNC WHEN THEY WERE RULING………THE POLICY OF THE PPP IS TO BUILD NOT TO DESTROY AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING….NOTHING WILL PREVENT THEM FROM DOING THAT…….
It’s a start. If there is a finding by Guyana but the UN, and there certainly seems to be an investigation, then aid to Guyana may be tied to constituional reform that could allow for a more participatory govt where the opposition is involved in the decision making process. We’ve had the English Ambasador make statement urging constitional reform to meet this need.
Burnham locked up Guyana and threw away the key because he refused aid, (even a shipment of flour in Guyana’s waters was returned) therefore there was no leverage that the international institutions had with him.
In Jagdeo’s case, he is parading as a democracy, accepting aid to Guyana, and as long as he does that, the donor govts have a say. So yes, he should be worried.
Nicely put gap1, but I wonder if Mr. Corbin also mentioned to the human rights people what Burnham did when he was ruler of Guyana. I’d bet you in a million years he wouldn’t fess up to any of the human rights violations which occurred under the PNC. Maybe Jagdeo should follow Burnham’s lead and refuse aid as well. Maybe then a lot of the nice posters in here will stop crying out loud because they see Burnham as a great hero and his actions as heroic and just. When Burnham was using the GDF to raid Indian villages (which had no connection to crime in any shape or form) and brutalized Indians, not a voice was heard, but now when the police raid villages which are breeding grounds for criminals, some folks cry bloody murder and call out for amnesty international to intervene. It’s funny, though, how people look to the world police as the divine, pure, law abiding, human rights champion, but in reality, their human rights record can be put into question. I don’t approve of the current administration and their corrupt officials, but the things the police/GDF did in the past under Burnham and the things being done now under the current administration, pale in comparison to some of the atrocities the human rights champion/world police is responsible for. It’s like one thief (PNC) running to another thief (US) to complain that his chain got stolen by a third thief (PPP).
I WONDER WHY SO MANY AMERICAN FLAGS WITH THESE BLOGGERS , ARE YOU GUYS REALLY LIVING IN THE U S A OR YOU JUST LOVED THE AMERICAN FLAG (INK09) (MACKYDOG) ARE THEIR ANY LOCALS ON THIS BLOG
torbo,
Yes I am in the U.S temporarily living here, would have preferred to be fishing in Guyana though.
This is an unusual question.
The people in Guyana don’t have to read the SN on the internet…they buy the paper!
When I am in Guyana, I do NOT read the SN on the internet, so there would be no posts from me. In fact I do write letters to the Editor when I am there.
The flags do not mean that much. At least we get some idea of the vast reading
of the SN across the globe.
On the news item, nothing much will come out of it.
It will be report, the Government of Guyana will get a copy, the newspapers might
get a copy and will then comment on it, lots of chatter will ensue and the status quo will continue.
Moire stuff to read and hopefully not get too angry at.
I see so many complaints from mackydog about his posts being ‘axed’ etc, that I wonder if de man don’t tink it time to rationalise why dat is happening. It easy man. You posting things that could cause suits against the SN. It easy man.
Now what to do?
1. stap complaining! It not gun wuk!
2. write in a different mode..peacefully, rationally, simply, non-confrontational,
non-accusotory and so on.
3 try to understand dat is not only your posts dat get edited or as you say ”axed’.
Mine does get de same action, so when dat happen, ah try to see where I
went off the acceptable style
4. stop fooling yourself that SN is afraid of you causing a lawsuit…some egoist!
Now what we was talking about again…?
Carl you are floggin a dead horse!
I am reframing this so that it would fall into the generic and not the specific.
Times have changed significantly and customs have also changed.
A while ago, we were told that our internet writings should not be all in upper-case letters as that style was indicative of something.
Does anyone know if that advice or expression is still operative in today’s blogging?
Maybe the Moderator could have an input on this.
Aparently the conveniently decided not to tell of their own.
WITH WHOS MONEY THEY BUILDING FOREIGN AID GOPIE, AND THE CARTELS BUILDING TOO SIDE BY SIDE
Another PPP advocate from abroad. Are we looking at people’s safety and public law and ethics or are you going to compare political parties. Maybe your party has a lot to do with the current human rights situation, dont you think, or maybe like them you just dont care.
That was the reaction of the Boers whenever they were confronted on apartheid. It is amazing how close the parallels are. From the Soweto like harrassment, arrest and detention of young black kids, to the beneficiaries of the unequal system egging the cops and the state on, it’s like deja vu all over again. Well the chip seldom falls far from the block if you guys know what I mean.
That’s right Gopie,they all have long term memory loss.
If you keep looking back line the current administration you will surely crash, we need to be proactive in this era and stop measuring now against the past. Are you happy with the current human rights standard? If you are a hipocrite you will say YES.
ink09
That is exactly true and I totally agree with you.
The Mr. Editor and SN Moderator axed my entire post on this topic, I’m glad yours made it. That’s why I say that SN is PNC because they don’t like to hear the raw truth about the PNC. Maybe they’ll axe this one too, maybe malaikao6 scared them by questioning how my post made it to SN and she smell a lawsuit so SN scared of printing my posts.
But all I tell is the truth…like your post. Good job ink09
ink09 cleanse yourself of the hatred of the past. You are a shining example of what is wrong with the people that give this regime support for the wrongs they continue to inflict on people and country. In your book two wrongs make it right. Typical of “is we in power now, so our wrongs are for the wrongs of the past.
The past was bad and unless people like you purge yourself of the past and look things in the face and say: this is not right regardless of what shade of person is running the country Guyana will remain a divided backwater land.
The United Nations, the Bush Administration and most Americans think of them as a big joke .America no longer pays it’s memebership dues to this laughing stock of an organisation.
Maybe you have missed the sarcasm in Guy123 comments.