Dear Editor,
A stunning turn of events regarding the massacre of 11 innocent people in Lusignan, has been the call from Father Rodrigues and others for the government to engage in dialogue with the criminals. I agree they should, by telling them to surrender immediately.
Dr Roger Luncheon is right – there should be no philosophical discussion with these killers about national security. These people are cold-blooded murderers who slaughtered innocent children in their beds.
What sort of dialogue can one have with such people? The state should use its resources to “hunt them down”, as the president said, until they are caught, dead or alive. There is no other stance to be taken in this case, considering what they have done, the horror of what they executed, and the pain and suffering and trauma they inflicted on the residents of Lusignan, and the resultant fear and insecurity felt in Guyana in the Indian community.
Guyana is a democratic society where the present government was elected by free and fair elections, and where the rule of law must govern, not some mad group of killers running amok, in the name of disenfranchisement. Any talk of racial discrimination is to be carried out within the legal framework of the country and parliament, not by the slaughter of people by some power-drunk section of our society. These criminals must be hunted down! Nothing else is acceptable.
Yours faithfully,
Mohan Singh
