Dear Editor,

I have just seen Mr Ogunseye’s letter ‘Damned if they do speak, and damned if they don’t’ (SN, July 3).  Without spoiling it, I ask readers to reflect on the analysis.

Ogunseye asks why the PPP and the Leader himself did not deny the charge of making “cheap propaganda of Walter Rodney’s assassination” for 25 years. I add one detail. The PPP Leader, Dr Jagan did in fact angrily deny the report as mischievous when it was first hinted at. After tempting him to deny it, the reporters released the information as though from a recording. Only then did they all fall silent. After my recent letter I heard that the remark had also been made in other places.

I have written before, using the one exchange I was involved in, of how the Jagan-Rodney relationship developed. Is anyone interested?

Let me say that I am the one person from those days who has written on my part in ethnic conflicts in Guyana. I must be the only impure one. My criticisms of both Dr Jagan and Mr Burnham are political, not personal.

Yours respectfully,
Eusi Kwayana