Dear Editor,
There is an immediate question in my mind: Where is Ms Teneisha Morgan?
The police ought to be able to give a satisfactory description of how the slain gunman, the late Mr Rawlins, and others were wounded.
I have read Mr Adam Harris, Mr Freddie Kissoon (September 3), Mr Ogunseye, Mr Ramotar, President Jagdeo and lastly a Mr or Ms Peeping Tom on the killings and what they imply or allow. I find them all instructive.
All of them but Mr Ogunseye and Mr Kissoon described the activity as simply crime. There is much talk about a statement by the Leader of the Opposition, but I have not seen it in print. Strangely it seems that Mr Rawlins, ‘Fineman,’ who we are told likes to admit his deeds, did not admit the miner’s camp slaughter. Or is it in his diary?
Some of us have condemned the madness from its origin, never seeking to justify it.
However, living people have human rights, whether they are suspects or convicts or not. I hope that the country will not look on Commis-sioner Henry Greene as a coroner giving the findings of an inquest. Some will think I am splitting hairs. I can answer as others have argued, that there is no evidence on oath of Rawlins’s admissions. Let me say that in our country persons entitled to the protection of the law have been shot after surrendering − Linden ‘Blackie’ London. I know this is ‘the past’ which is unpleasant, but it has flowed into its future, up to now
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If there is any section of political opinion that has suspended the fundamental rights in secret the public should hear of it.
The capture of these men dead rather than alive was driven by the same state of mind that brought the Phantom into existence − I do not mind adding, in response to previous civilian aggression. We have not heard that Rawlins admitted responsibility for his sister’s death. From what has been given out, the two coastal massacres are no longer a mystery. It will be convenient now, no doubt, for the mining camp massscre to be officially forgotten like the tortures not yet treated in a civilised manner.
“Life spare,” it is my intention to review the entire post-2001 election period, if possible, with some sense of the state of mind of the fugitive gunmen in recent times.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
