Seeking to galvanise support for an international inquiry into human violations here, the joint opposition political parties yesterday unveiled a dossier documenting abuses, including the torture and murder of citizens that they say were carried out with state support.
Some of those in attendance at City Hall yesterday for the launching of the joint opposition dossier, aimed at getting an international inquiry into human rights abuses here. Copies of the dossier were made available at the launch to organisations as well as members of the public. In the foreground is WPA Chairman Desmond Trotman (second from right) , who distributed copies while at extreme left is PNCR leader Robert Corbin and at extreme right is Dr Rupert Roopnaraine. (Jules Gibson photo)
The dossier, compiled by the PNCR, the AFC, GAP, the WPA and the NFA, chronicles a decade and a half of unlawful killings and warns that a failure to launch an international investigation could fuel a cycle of hatred that could stoke the return of violence. Addressing the alleged link between the government and convicted drug kingpin Roger Khan, the dossier concluded that hundreds of killings committed in the wake of the 2002 jailbreak were the result of a gang “war” between the 2002 Mash Day prison escapees and Khan’s ‘phantom squad.’ It further concluded that both forces were supported by rogue elements of the disciplined forces that were being supported by the government.
Among the contents of the document are a partial list of citizens unlawfully killed by citizens between 1993 and 2002; a partial list of citizens allegedly shot to death [and] otherwise unlawfully killed by the “Black Clothes” squad or other rogue elements of the security services, the “phantom squad,” as well as other instances of extra-judicial killing, execution or assassination; and a full list of extra-judicial and other killings between 1993 and 2009, numbering 449. The parties said that because murders were part of the catalogue, they were committed to the fact that statutes of limitations do not apply.
Also among the contents are reports about the recent torture of a 15-year-old boy, whose genitals were set on fire while he was in the custody of the police. A photo of the boy’s burns was included in the document, although there was concern about its appropriateness.
The goal of the dossier is to establish that there is a sufficient ‘prima facie’ basis to warrant further interrogation of grave human rights abuses by an independent body with the requisite legal authority. At a simple ceremony yesterday at City Hall, copies of the dossier were handed over to representatives of several local groups as well as foreign missions, members of the media as well as some members of the public who turned up. A representative of the UK High Commission said that the mission would examine the dossier carefully as well as further action by the joint opposition. Although he noted that there are international standards to which the UK is very committed, including human rights, he said a way forward would not depend on the international community but the local institutions and the people.
AFC leader Raphael Trotman noted that local and regional efforts to get the government to agree to an inquiry were unsuccessful and as a result, the opposition is looking to lobby the UN, the OAS and other organizations for action. To this end, he revealed that the dossier had been handed over to the US State Department. Mean-while, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin emphasised that neither the government nor the police force had demonstrated that it could be trusted with the responsibility for conducting a thorough probe. He said too that dossier was only a first step.
Infernal connections
The revelations of alleged links between the government and Khan, which emerged during the US trial of former Khan lawyer Robert Simels, prompted the joint efforts of the parties. They 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.
In the dossier, the parties noted that the evidence stemming from the trial of former Khan lawyer Robert Simels revealed many connections between state, organised crime and the political bosses of the ruling party. “It is our contention that these events did not just “happen” and are best understood in the context of other criminal acts and human rights abuses perpetrated against citizens of Guyana,” they noted.
The government has insisted that some opposition parties should be asked whether they are prepared for full disclosure about their role in the tragedies that affected Guyana in the period between 2001 and 2008. For the purposes of an international probe, the joint opposition gave “unequivocal and unreserved” commitment to comply and make their organisations and members fully and freely available to all independent investigations conducted in pursuit of truth in any matters. They note that the parties and their members had always been subject to the law. “None of us, as individuals or organisations, has the capacity or desire to stand above and beyond Guyana’s law, rules and regulations,” they said.
At the same time, the parties stressed that there can be “no moral equivalence” between an inquiry into the joint opposition parties and the call for an inquiry into state actors and those allied to them.
The parties also note that they are still in the process of updating a report on the spate of killings previously undertaken by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), but said that one of the expectations of the inquiry would be a definite ruling on the deaths compiled in the partial lists available, in order to bring some measure of justice and closure to the families and friends of the deceased. They also explained that in the interest of removing “any scintilla of doubt that the Joint Opposition Parties are only concerned with killings” it can lay at the feet of the government-ruling party-security services nexus, they also prepared the full lists of extra-judicial and other killings since 1993. “If the Tribunal requires to interrogate all these killings, we state unequivocally that we would cooperate fully and unconditionally,” they stated.
A body of evidence
According to the dossier, the evidence from the Simels trial, including the testimony of informant Selwyn Vaughn, Co-director of UK firm Smith Myers Peter Myers and Simels himself, was presented by all sides.
Meyers testified in a New York court that the cellular intercept equipment used by Khan had been sold to the Government of Guyana by the company’s Florida sales office through an affiliate. Meyers said it was only sold to governments while Simels’ defence identified Health Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy as the purchaser of the equipment on behalf of the government-a charge that the minister has repeatedly denied. Vaughn, a US government informant, also linked Ramsammy to Khan, another charge the minister denied. “These witnesses also gave evidence under oath, and were subjected to cross-examination,” the joint opposition said, “Hence, the body of evidence constituted tested testimony.” They emphasised that the revelations of the trial constitute sufficient probative information which should ground and necessitate an inquiry so that the country could bring closure to an ugly period of its history. What is more, they said the circumstances demand “a genuine study” of how the security sector broke down in the period. The parties added, “Surely, in these circumstances an international commission of inquiry must be set up to probe further into what happened, and to recommend what ought to be put in place so as to avoid a recurrence of this ugly history.”
A first step
According to the parties, the “real and perceived” partisanship that would be seen in any local commission in inquiry necessitates an international probe.
Additionally, they felt it would lend more legitimacy to its proceedings, findings and recommendations. “Tepid and ineffectual though it may be when compared to vigorous criminal investigations and prosecutions, such an inquiry is still arguably the more workable public response to the mass atrocity Guyanese suffered between 2002 [and] 2006,” they declared.
Corbin said that the dossier is only the first step in achieving the coalition’s objectives, noting that it world serve as the basis for a continuing campaign for public support as well as an international lobby for an investigation. He said it was necessary to give serious consideration to pursuing the engagement of international courts and to this end he said the best legal advice would be sought.
Corbin did not rule out another appeal to the National Assembly, however, saying it was still hoped that it would review its attitude to the importance of the need to debate the issue. What is more, he noted that the Assembly would have to formally call on the government to support a call for an inquiry. “Because we recognize that there is need for some agreement by the government of Guyana, if an international inquiry without the intervention of the criminal courts is to be initiated,” he said.
According to Corbin, the government is in a panic and he said it would stop at nothing to thwart attempts at initiating an inquiry. As a result, he reiterated the need for a public resolve to support the initiative, adding that it had implications for stability as well as the safety of the people.
WPA Co-Chairman Dr Rupert Roopnaraine called the project the most appalling and distressing activity he had participated in during his thirty-year involvement in producing political documents. “The catalogue of torture, degrading and cruel treatment and murder was really something which one visited with great apprehension and great distress,” he explained.
The pppeee will lose the next elections…They have corrupt this country too much, killings, murders, the phantom gangs, roger khan…you name it they did it, done it or is still doing it. These people deserve a small island where they can govern THEMSELVES, not Guyana.
yuh still dreamin?
The rag-tag bunch consisting of the PNCR, the AFC, GAP, the WPA and the NFA are simply the many heads of the POLITICAL WINGS OF THE PNC.
Having said that we can now understand why they are in unity against the government.
Guyana is going nowhere and the world moves on.
The P.P.P. will never lose an election providing Indo-Guyanese remain the majority of Guyana’s population. There is a visceral fear subtly fed and nurtured by the ruling party that Afro-Guyanese are inimical to their interest and must be deprived of leadership of the country. This fear is also bolstered by cultural underpinnings.
As I indicated in my comment last week on the Editorial of the Stabroek news. It should not be about the PPP or the PNC winning or losing the next election.
Which ever party wins, all Guyanese lose. We need a win-win strategy.
My recommendation in all seriousness is that there is a space on the ballot papers where citizens have a choice: No Party is Acceptable to Me.
If we were a true democracy there would be this option. I would hazard a guess that a majority of Guyanese will select this ‘None Of Them” option. This would send a strong message that it is time to change the constitution to go back to either the first past the post system or some contemporary best practice.
What I cannot support in Guyana is politics as usual where Guyanese are forced to vote along racial lines because ethnic insecurity is the subliminal political manifesto of both the PPP and the PNC. AApan Jat and Awee Matee Pickney is still operating in 2009.
So what is the way forward? A national coalition government for one term where the Presidency goes to the party with the most votes, the Prime Minister position goes to the next party with the most votes. And ministerial portfolios are allocated on a similar basis with the party with the most votes get a proportionate number of Ministerial portfolios and the other parties get proportional number of ministerial portfolios based on the votes received.
During this period of co-managing the political economy, a Blue Ribbon Bipartisan Commission is convened made up of Guyanese within and without the country who will hold a National Consultation and come up with a Manifesto for Ameliorating the Crisis in Guyana.
During this period we should bring in new police leadership and police officers from overseas at all levels to root out corruption, torture and brutality. We would declare a general amnesty for anyone involved in crimes against the citizens and who come forward and ask for reconciliation and the state and let us move on.
If this strategy to heal and redeem Guyana were to occur Randy Persaud’s hypothesis of a growing middle class will become a paradigm as overseas Guyanese flock back home. By this time oil will be produced, our intellectuals and professionals will return and we establish medical tourism, sophisticated call centers, add value to our lumber in developing a very competitive furniture industry, bust out tourism, set up Export Processing Zones, diversify our agricultural base to include cocoa and coffee among other cash crops and establish a agro processing industr,establish a cut flower industry, mass store and transship our water resources by setting up a Water Storage transhipment facility where international water tankers come to upload to have the water sold in the arid countries of the world. Manage our forest reserves to make them sustainable.
The net effect will be increased private sector employment, a more predictable source of government revenue, reduced unemployment and underemployment and out migration with the result in a significant reduction in crime and lawlessness. Increases in public servant salaries would be automatic as will be the case for the police.
And finally, we will ask the International narcotics Commission to establish a strong presence in Guyana, have the Department of Agriculture establish a major food inspection certification station in the different areas of the country .
My fellow Guyanese it is not rocket science to see that we can turn around Guyana within 10 years. Remember this saying: “Solutions to problems within a nation are to be found from within when the citizens come together to articulate a vision , own that vision and commit to implementing that vision”
As a deeply patriotic Guyanese who has spent his professional life transforming other nations, I am obligated to try to do so in my Guyana Eldorado which is the best in all the world to me and in my heart wherever I travel memories of making Guyana a modern day Eldorado lives on. All of my hopes and aspirations are with helping to bring Guyana back which did one fundamental thing for me for which i am forever indebted and that is to give me a world class “education” at Queens College.
finally we will see how many fellow CARICOM citizens flock to our country. And we will have a Barbados fast track line to show that Guyanese will never descend to embarrassing fellow CARICOM nationals.
I intended to pay this debt back. I will continue to write and I will reveal myself in due course.
Come on Guyanese let us hold hands across the political divide to heal and transform our country.
The Patriot
I do not see the PPP losing the next elections. Some people stand to gain much from these corrupt practices so that they will fuel the PPP to another victory. BUT the good news is that nothing goes on forever (not 2011 elections though). Change will come but people have to work for it and most Guyanese are not prepared to do the work!!!!!!
The opposition must continue to keep this issue in the limelight because this government lacks morality and will never change. The P.P.P. exists in an aura of entitlement and belief that they are Guyana’s natural ruling party with a divine right to govern.
u bets shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush up, b4 they gang u boy, cus u lnow me go miss u, if them tek u out, so shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush up
Sandman,I am going to ask a question of you based primarily on the first sentence of your blog instead of commenting on the news article. As a “man around town” and currently residing in Guyana, my guess is that you have a better perspective of events on the ground. Based on my assumption, why do you think the PPP will lose the next election? ISNM
Heather Chin, you have overstepped your bounds here by recommending that we boycott Guyana and not send remittances to our families, how dare you suggest that, show some compassion to our fellow Guyanese in ocuntry. Unfortunately, that is not going to happen, just as how the PPP will always have my unrelenting support, because I am of the opinion that they (PPP) are best suited to rule Guyana.
patriot says::
What I cannot support in Guyana is politics as usual where Guyanese are forced to vote along racial lines because ethnic insecurity is the subliminal political manifesto of both the PPP and the PNC. AApan Jat and Awee Matee Pickney is still operating in 2009:::
Question:
Name one single Guyanese that were ever “forced” to vote.for PPP political Party.Just one.
It’s AApan Jat when you loose right?
Why not tell us about “kit n Kin” back then when you used to win win win?
We await you on this….
Sister you are part of the problem. The problem being that Guyanese people and their government have become too dependent on handouts, remittances and barrels and are not focusing on the real issues that make them so dependent such as corruption, joblessnes and the inability of the masses to earn a livable wage.
Take away the remittances and “perks” then the rawness of life in GY will be truly exposed.
The only boundary that is being overstepped is that whereby the Government is allowed to trample on the rights of Guyanese and refuse to be held accountable for the state of the people. The only boundaries being overstepped is the one where persons such as yourself seek to keep Guyanese in a perpetual state of dependency…always with a begging bowl outstretched.
You are a rather conflicted individual, supporting a government that is causing Guyanese to flee their own homeland in droves not for travel and education, but for basic survival. You are so keenly aware of the government’s failure and the fact that were it not for the financial support of the overseas diaspora and as you mentioned, “compassion”, many families would perish. Yet you lend your “unrelenting support” to the government responsible for keeping these families in these predicaments. How dare you, Sister? How dare you?
Your own Rohee said it best when he announced that Guyanese are only concerned about the Christmas barrel. I will add to that and say that they comfortable only because they are guaranteed some small change at the end of the month, and the promise of a visa. Boycott the barrels, boycott the remittances and Guyanese will come to their senses.
You could keep your unrelenting support as it’s your right,however, you would do much more for Guyanese if you encourage them to protest for their right to work and their right to a decent standard of living in an environment where corruption is not the order of the day.
Ulric , do not waste time this fella, he does not know from A to bullfoot,,,he only taking up space…can you make any sense on any of his comments???
Patriot has some very good points.Guyana will never progress and prosper until all the races bury the past (truth and reconcilliation) and work together for the better of the nation. Peace
Evil. Sorry. Most, not every indo guyanese.
War Africa,
I think Guyanese Indians have a deep fear of the PNC after all they have been through for 28 year period. PNC don’t show as much interest in the Indo community as the PPP have shown throughout all ethnic groups over the past 17 years. The Amerindian groups have benefited greatly from this form of diversity; its safe to say that because of this, most of these people support the PPP.
If we go to Indian & african now they gonna deport us. We need to stop seeing ourselves as indo & afro guyanese. We are Guyanese. I wud not be doing my country nor the people of my country justice by supporting corruption, drugs, murder, etc.
SH what electons are you talking bout?Nothing here can convince me that the ppp will lose.CHEERS.
Let me pick up on your comment, RodRick that the PNC don’t show interest in the Indo community.
WHILST THE PNC HAVE BEEN CONSUMED BY A FIXATION TO HUMAN RIGHTS; THEY HAVE TOTALLY NEGLECTED TO SAY WHAT THEY WOULD DO TO STIMMULATE PRIVATE BUSINESS AND EXPORT INDUSTRIES.
Why would ANYONE (Indo OR Afro) vote for them?
DD
I did not know that you are Patriot:::
I am betting anyone here a million dollars….THE PPP WILL LOSE THEN NEXT GENERAL ELECTIONS!!!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!!!
Don’t bet, what you don’t have.
soldier, the deragatory comments directed towards SH by you are so disrespectful and unfounded. since you know the SH doesn’t know from A to bullfoot show us your analytical skills and give us your take on what he said and tear it down with reason. you can’t do that so, you get angry and attack the intelligence of the man.. typical pee pee pee supporter. when their are no way to make mince meat of the persons comments, attack the messenger. Satish referring to people as rag tag bunch. he is confused; you don’t have to look hard to see who the real rag tag bunch really is. they molest little children, smuggle drugs and God knows what else that has not come out yet.
PPP SHOULD GO…BUT WHO DO YOU SUGGEST AS BETTER ALTERNATIVE
I SEH SHARMA
SHF,what a joke,lets see coming 2011.Hope you didn’t change your name by then.
(AFC+PNC)-PPP=PNC BACK IN POWER,maybe,it is possible.Likewise in the nineteen-sixties(UF+PNC)-PPP=PNC IN POWER FOR 28 YEARS.Other than that,victory will always be the PPP.
@ WAR_AFRICA the street is a two way one. What this has led to is Afro Guyanese being demonized.
What they forget is that there is a God who niether sleeps or slumber. Remember no one didn’t see Barack Obama coming until he arrived!
TO ALL U RACE BATING GUYANESE OUT THERE, KEEP YOUR RACE IN PLACE AND GIVE GUYANA A RAISE. ALL POLITICAL PARTY SHOULD COME TOGETHER AND PUT GUYANA FRIST. NO MORE PPP/C, PNC/R OR OTHERS, EACH PARTY SHOULD ELECT A MEMBER TO RUN THE COUNTRY.
I commend the opposition for completing this dossier and I would urge them to post it online.
Many of us overseas Guyanese would like to join this effort in the continued struggle to bring democracy to Guyana and if the dossier is posted online, it would be convenient to us, the cyber generation as we too move forward in this struggle.
I guess thanks is in order to the joint opposition. They have served our beloved Guyana well by completing this dossier. Now the next steps…
Keep at it gentlemen. The whole world must know what went on and what continues to go on. There must be justice for all. Even if it means scrapping the present government and installing a national front government to look after the welfare of all Guyanese.
Unfortunately this report will be ignored and it’ll be business as usual. The names and lives of those lost to violence are dispensable and in many cases known only to their families and close friends. They are the poor and the indigent caught up in the cauldron of race politics. They are collateral damage and expendable. Sadly those who make up the class of sufferers will continue to vote for the same old parties, not having read and therefore unaware of their “lying” manifestos. Maybe that’s why they are not read.
This what his needed unity ,if peope of all walks of life can come together an form a coalition of force then change will come ,the people of our country must sign a petition andn’t send it to the right body ,their are many on answer question that needed to answer by the President of guyana,we cannot we must not allowed these leaders of a great country take us back in the dark days .This should not be about power it must be about justice for all those who killed in the crime spree ,of all race.
The Joint Opposition has great task ahead, all Guyana must support them our children’s live depend on our actions now. forget the politics forget the race in facts all races are being killed, robbed, victimized, made to pay huge taxes from which their children nor themselves would benefit.
Let the international Probe begin, let’s push for it!! good work joint opposition!!!!
you push for it not me.
Guyanese people are not concerned about pesky things like human rights. They are too busy preparing to receive their Christmas barrels from overseas relatives and the PPP is doing a great job.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
HJAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA…………………
THAT’S A GREAT JOKE FOR THE MORNING…THE GREATEST FOR THE DAY….HAHAHAHA
Bis gal yuh cuda fool me…only ppp pepol ah receive barel huh?
While everyone in this SN’s photograph are busy contributing- Dr. Roopnaraine’s hands placed on his hips sends a message of superiority .
… I think it was Rohee who said that. What a shame!
That is why overseas Guyanese who want to see this nonsense stop should boycott their spending. Don’t send barrels, don’t send money, let them get off their rumps and fight for what they need. A country like Guyana with all it’s natural resources and billions in foreign aid should not still be in that predicament.
Guyanese are too comfortable because they are collecting from overseas for doing absolutely nothing. They need to awake from their slumber and see that they have an uncaring government that does not care about their security or livelihood and is brazen enough to support attrocities against its citizens.
Boycott them so they could in turn demand better jobs, wages, security and fair treatment from their government.
Basmattie Ramsawak can you advise me where to get some of that water you are consuming?.
Guyana is on the brink of being a failed state, only there isn’t the British to suspend the constitution. Perhaps some would like to see it return to the days prior to 1963 only then there was the struggle of the labour movement.
This era highlights a culture of corruption, torture, murder and nepotism. The PPP/C government took over an economy with sound fiscal and economic development policies.
mattie,
You know how the ting does go! As long as dem criminals dead, no body don’t care. Collect your barrel, money then bashment starts from Dec. 24th and don’t stop till after the first week of the new year.
when the tables do turn because they will turn one day people like you have to run and hide, you should be ashamed of your comment. All you care about is barrels, Burnham thought he could be in there forever too, PPP government is presently thinking the same, you see where mr. Burnham is right there all of us has to go and answer to our God. Watch your foolish tounge.
I wish for christmas that you 2 embrace this government. but you are actually doing it becuz you haven’t left yet. If this country is so bad why don’t you leave?
Maybe because you can’t find another country where you can hustle your way through the system.
i totally condem tortures in any civilized society…it already happen and we hope it don’t happen again..why wasting time to go seek international help what good will that do..wasting time money and energy..or trying some kind of tatics to gain recogination..tortures has has been history and it will never ever stop no matters who say what or do what…as there are some who belive in iy and will continue do it.no matter what we say or do and it can be more consequential…what we need to do is try to talk and preach it out ..no overseas help will help insten of doing all that and wasting money why not help the kid and his family…tortures was back since slavery,,,british,,pnc,,ppp and it will go on no matter who is in power…
You seem not to understand what is needed here. Since dat Government dont want to listen to the people cries, well we got to do it in a different way. This thing is not about race or PPP-PNC, it is about saving a nation. making it better for our children and their children to come.
Are you kidding me. Remember the saying a threat to freedom anywhere is a threat to fredom everywhere. Things like state sponsored torture is like a cancer if you don’t put a check in it it will eventually consume all. There is a saying is a tragedy when bad things happen and good men do nothing about it.
you can clearly see them in the unlit city hall that cannot pay their electric bill.
an institution run by an incompetent former ????????????any more risk the AXE as usual.
from 1993, that include heart attacks, those killed by the criminals, road accident victims, as they stated clearly
“failure to launch an international investigation could fuel a cycle of hatred that could stoke the return of violence”.
their intentions is to get hold of ultimate POWER.
TOTALLY condemn…..HOPE it don’t happen again….PREACH it out…tra la la la la. Never heard such defeatist twaddle in my life.
SN:Why is this awaiting moderation?Is this not what the very PNC said?
Freespeech
pnc…. they already told us its powa either thru de back door -slide door -side door or trap door….
wen dem seh “dem will apply slo fiah and mo fiah” “make country ungovernable” no one listened.no one asked the international community -caricom to intervene.
no one would ever tell us whom are in support of that works in government offices to know the real truth about the corruption index report.
there are foreign embassies with people watching all this played out in guyana but mums de wor
All of this going through the motions (do these grown men ever think about what they are doing and what i will adversely affect them at eletion time ?) attests to the freedoms we have in Guyana. These include, againt he backdrop of contining steady and unoubtedly rising support across all race and religion lines for the government’s overall good work including against commmon criminals , for the opposition parties to try and pander to a dwindling support base…
449 ? Hmmmmm… as much as that ? I guess those AK-47s used by the lil boys trying to play hero with the string pullers in the backgrond do make a lot of noise….Folks, ask the goodly gentlemen if it is not the nice even number like 450 –nawh, that would make it too obvious like when a crooked mechanic gives you a bill -it is always an uneven number like $6071 and 30 cents to give inmpression that the replacement parts were all bought….
When are more concerned minded and knowledgeable Guyanese who know the whole pictue going to speak out against this sham and charade by this unholy alliance that SN is wasting space upon ?
Now the Government is launching a dossier calling for an International probe from 1964 to the time when Desmond Hoyte blessed criminalism in Guyana by attending the draping of the most natorous Criminal’s body ( Linden London) with the Golden Arrow Head… Shame on all of these gentlemen…
Wakefulness and cogency required please.
yaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Norman Faria is at it again with his denial.
Reddy, you could afford to write your opinions in the relative comfort and confines of the clique. Until you have been personally touched by the tyrannical reign of the PPP we can expect you to continue decrying every avenue taken to seek any justice for anyone other than those in the folds of the PPP. We will chalk you up to a simple paid mouth piece, much like the ones who spam several forums with blind rhetoric.
You guys should come up with your own dossier and ask for an international investigation of opposition activities in Guyana…even the score…take the bait.
Yaaaawn, Reddy you live in a different world.
Good thing you got your blog through, Reddy. The moderator is sitting on mine :-(
Keep working it opposition. This is the way to go. The Government gonna cry foul all deh want. Tek care of ya citizens before u try to put other man country in check. Jagdeo fail miserably to keep the country up to par. All dem bout is chat chat.
Joint opposition says::: “If the Tribunal requires to interrogate all these killings, we state unequivocally that we would cooperate fully and unconditionally,” they stated.
Sounds to me like its on shaky grounds already once there is “IF”.
Joint opposition says:”The parties said that because murders were part of the catalogue, they were committed to the fact that statutes of limitations do not apply”
Once this is so then why start at 1993?
Like the famous baseball announcer would say when the batter hit a ball-back back back back back and its gone home run…..
Joint opposition also says:”warns that a failure to launch an international investigation could fuel a cycle of hatred that could stoke the return of violence”
I ask now:Violence on whom are they talking about,would it be innocent citizens on the streets of Guyana?
Or, will there be violence on those who perpetrated the murders?
on another note:::See whats taking place in the US with regard to President Obama:This is most frightening and a must watch.to the end:::::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-y84VW0_o
Reddy said “like when a crooked mechanic gives you a bill,” like yuh know duh mechanic he belong to the PPP. Crooked, corrupt, incompetent are all synonymous with the PPP.