The dossier on government’s alleged human rights abuses that was being compiled by the joint opposition is complete and will be made public on Tuesday, November 17.
The dossier will be unveiled at City Hall at 10 am, an invitation from Desmond Trotman on behalf of the Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) said. The Alliance For Change, the Guyana Action Party, the National Front Alliance, the People’s National Congress/ Reform and the Working People’s Alliance had announced a partnership in August to sensitise local and international organisations on drug-convict Roger Khan’s saga and to force greater accountability from the government.
The joint opposition had agreed to compile a comprehensive dossier cataloguing the government’s human rights abuses, including extra-judicial killings, torture and complicity with known organised crime gangs and narco-traffickers and the resulting corruption. The dossier will be submitted to local, regional and international bodies, including the courts with the appropriate jurisdiction and the public.
In the invitation, Trotman said that “the grave developments deriving from the involvement of senior officials and functionaries of the Government of Guyana in the drug trade, the torture and murder of more than two hundred citizens in collusion with self-confessed drug lord, Roger Khan, a convicted prisoner in the USA, are now a matter of public record”.
He pointed out that the developments have both national and international security implications as well as serious consequences for the stability of the State, and this impelled the JOPP to launch an initiative to call upon President Bharrat Jagdeo to establish an international Inquiry into these vital matters.
It was in this context that the JOPP undertook the preparation of a dossier to make the case for such an inquiry.
AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan, who had pushed for the preparation of the dossier, had earlier explained that it was receiving input from several sources, including local experts as well as assessments by international organisations on government corruption and state abuses. Ramjattan had told this newspaper that they had been successful in communicating to the citizenry the wrongdoing that has taken place since 2002.
He said the dossier would aid in internationalising the issue, and would justify the call for an international inquiry.
Khan, who said he fought crime with the assistance of government officials, was last month in the US, sentenced to two 15-year and one ten-year prison terms, all of which would run concurrently, meaning he would serve a 15-year federal prison term for convictions for drug smuggling, witness tampering and gun possession.
Is city hall now ,, the tent for the opposition parties ?????? or is the mayor selling space for this circus ! i wonder about the dossier put together for the 28 years of illegal tenure by the now mayor who was a major player in the ruthless dictatorship ,, that has Guyana looking for answers to the many woes that the now mayor helped robustly to engineer ! it is useless to point fingers ,, when the pnc is the chief acrhitect of all that is wrong in Guyana today ! the WPA would be well advised to keep their nose out of this smelly affair ,, or be in it to monitor the mayor and his devious workings.
Is this the best response you could give to this report? The PPP had 17 years to investigate the previous 28 years, Is it that they decided not to do so as they would have been implicated as welll. Having failed to do so suggests that the PPP wanted to use the same stratagies in government, which they have been even more ruthless in doing.
IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK MORE THAN 25 YEARS. THE P.P.P WERE IN OPPOSITION THEY SHOULD HAVE DETAILED ANY CRIMES THAT WERE COMMITTED. INSTEAD THEY PERFECTED THE CRIMES AND TOOK IT TO NEW HEIGHTS. KEEP DRINKING THE SOUP.
Tingu its people like you who are responsible for the state of Guyana. City hall is a Public place and it is central….its tax payers house because you live in America and everything good for you,youare comfortable. I would like to leave you with the words of Dr.Henrik Clarke.
Dr.John Henrik Clarke, quote “When a people are not too sure about who they are loyal to and what their commitments are they represent a danger within the cultural mainstream of their society”
It good when the whole opposition can come together for acause to show support for something that is wrong. This is called through Leadership no matter what their differences are. Some of us call ourself Guyanese but can you Tingu define your role as a Guyanes living in America.
The beauty about Blog land, some of us can come on board and engage with the worse of the pass but where we live we never find our who are some of the people who are responsible for the our comfort but you happy and want Guyana to continue to slide backwards.
tingu mingu:
Do you have any thoughts that are original? Is the basis for your diatribe so shaky that the only critique is always 28 years of P.N.C. rule? Let the P.P.P. document what took place during P.N.C’s 28 years and have prosecutions for those suspected of crimes if still alive. I know they are not fortunate enough to be serving as ambassadors in the “motherland”.
Chucky you think it deserve an academic analysis ???????? if you do then i’m sorry ,, there won’t be enough space to allow for any such ,,,, as for nitty gritty ,, shouting is a sure sign of anger ,, which is just the emotion i expected from your kind ,, why ??? cos the truth eats like a cancer ,,, and that is what is taking it’s toll on the whole clique ! it’s called KARMA ! go figure !
tingu mingu you seem like an intelligent person, why don’t you investigate and develop a dossier of the “28 years of ruthless dictatorship” you that young persons like myself be informed about the abuses that you and your kind keep refering to? With these two documents in the public domain fair judgements can then be made about which of the two “ruthless dictatorships are worse”
tingu mingu, we should give thanks to the british and the americans for the hand they played in saving guyana from the ruthless cheddi jagan. you see your observations and so narrow minded that i can feel your pain and sense of deprevation that your beloved pee pee pee did not get to take guyana into the iron curtain. making a choice between burnham and jagan was easy for the powers that be because they knew that jagan was the worst of the two evils. people complain about banded goods, no peas to make roti but the alternative with jagan would have been worst. cheddi jagan visited america and on a radio program the question was asked; have you any objections about what is taking place with the naturalisation in guyana ? his response: “no ! i would have did it faster” so, you see tingu mingu you are getting your facts from the wrong place or you are deliberately misrepresenting them for cheap political gains. the pee pee pee was part of the problem and now that they were put in power by jimmy carter, they are finding it difficult to impose their communists ideology on a enlightened guyanese population…you are annoyed that we wont take it lying down..wake up from your slumber and get with the program.
Tingu, I wonder why you so aggressive towards a move for justice…..
And I wonder if the PPP really wanted justice during the PNC’s 28yrs in power.
… Cheddies ruthlessness is de reason nuff ahyuh can sit down to a meal ! an de bull cowpie yuh puttin out haysuh abt de brits an de Americans hands played to save GUYANA from Cheddie ,, find out why Ted[RIP] Kennedy apologised for his brothers indiscretion ,,, yuh still green an wet behind yuh aze ,, gwan suh an larn fuh bathe properly ! caz to tell u fuh read ,, might be a serious prablem fuh u ! how i knoe ?????? read wah yuh write as a reply to wah was so brutally blunt with facts and truth ,, SN/moderator/AXER had to delete um ! i’m affording u the dignity of a response for ur own good guh larn fuh read ,, and den read bowt burnham ,, and de X13 plan ,, and den come back to me !..
Finally! Awaiting the contents
Me too. Long overdue!
Good work oppositions, keep the pressure on, let the international communities know that torture is condone and sanctioned by the Guyana Govt.
Bring it on gentlemen and ladies. Let the world know what has happened and continues to happen in Guyana. It’s not only about knowing but doing whatever it takes to stop state terror.
Wha happen ? The weekend come and the bais ease up on the excercise wid the cardboard placards dem and giving vendors lil business wid soft drinks and fish cakes?
….Wait til election time for this bunch of no hopers….
Folks, have a good weekend…
aint reddy jagdeo will be the first president in guyana’s history that will be investigated and charged with offenses if any are found…he can’t hide under the constitution.
A dossier ready. I see.Nothing wrong with that.I wonder who are the sources, and by what means the information was compiled.What is critical here is if the allegations can be substantiated.Nincompoops are busy celebrating an event as usual, without any results of the findings being upheld by a commission
This is good going “WE WILL GET THERE
Good job folks. It aint only about protesting & using violence to get the message across. Mandela did it. 27 yrs in jail & came smelling like a rose. Mahatma Ghandi did it. Follow the trail of these men. Justice & freedom will come. Guyana will be released from the plague – murder, corruption, drug runnings, guns runnings, etc. 2011 is the year for all Guyanese. Not dem greedy ones though. On the other hand, joint opposition people where I can get one of allyuh dossier thing from. Somebody who can tell me do so. I wud luv to read it.
hmmmmm lots of opposition political paaty in ah guyana.
and yet dem ah call it didctatship…
but de nicest part is all de appasitian paaty pepol livin in ah guyana.dem nat run from de dictata jagdeo.wow..or..de dictata nat runnin dem out de countrie…yikes…sum dictata e is….
well evileyes, you need to decide on what talking points you will promulgate. you folks were calling Burnham a dictator and he still allowed the inept pee pee pee to exist.jokes can’t finish.
Please make sure that there is an online copy for downloading.
I agree with you. We need copies to pass on to our American
Canadian, British and Caribbean family, friends and co-workers
around the world.
Moderator, What about a Toolbox where a person can email an article to a friend ?.
Moderator’s note: Will discuss with IT support.
Yaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnn!
like you yawnin uself to sleep or you just wake, take the boo bo out you yei.
-Ra…Inotice this flag showing up a lot in Blog land and all over the electronic news print.
Question, Is this the new settlement in Europe for PPP escapees?
OPPOSITION PARTIES, DO NOT EVER “BACK-DOWN” MANY ARE BECOMMING AFRAID, KEEP ON THEIR HEELS, WE ARE WITH YOU ALL THE WAY ALONG WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH.