Dear Editor,
Guyana is becoming infamous for massacres. Now there is a holocaust.
The press has reported the horror of burnt bodies in a miners’camp on the Berbice River. The security forces have denied responsibility. I gather that people are expecting the media to launch a vigorous investigation into the event and the surrounding circumstances.
The mine owner, Mr Arokium, has been placed in a kind of plight for which he cannot be responsible.
As we know from the accusations of torture in the army last year it is pointless awaiting a result of any police or Joint Services investigation. I urge that the press do its work in order to forestall a non-inquiry.
Since both the security detachments in the area and the gunmen linked to Fineman are suspected by public opinion, the press should consider a field investigation about movements over the area in question. A ballistics investigation by the press is not what I am suggesting; but a survey of the terrain and of news and information. I suggest too that there should be a sketch map of the sections of the Berbice River in the news, so that readers may form a judgment of the relation of the sites to each other. The route and direction of the bus hijacked will also be useful. Dates of the key events, where known, can be inserted.There is a feeling that the burning incident had become known since the time of the hijacking.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
