Dear Editor,
The carnage of Lusignan and Bartica are crescendos of a consistent epidemic of decline which has enveloped this country. As a result of our own capacity for critical shallowness and plain hypocrisy, we hide behind religion, social correctness and any fa?e that would give many of us the excuse not to act on the grim facts as they present themselves.
The village of Buxton reacted in 2002 when the State’s death squad led by Steve Merai entered that village and murdered Shaka Blair. That gunmen were located in that village is not a secret, they were resisting the unwritten policy of extra-judicial executions directed at the young Afro-Guyanese underprivileged population. Neither is the fact that the state collaborated with Roger Khan.
Roger Khan was not wrong when he said that he was helping the PPP state ‘fight crime’ nor were the PPP wrong when one of theirs hinted that some churches were compromised by the drug trade. Who are the stakeholders, those mute people who said nothing when Ronald Gajraj conducted his Phantom squad?
The PPP had since then abdicated the moral right to govern this country, yet their constituency voted them back in office, a yoke upon the bruised shoulders of this sad nation. I have viewed the abuse of the people’s television station after the Lusignan tragedy and forced others to watch, to perceive what a disappointing group of people, delusional and dishonest now wield the powers of office.
I would have never believed that the GDF could have trampled on the constitution, its own regulations and indulged in torture and conducted a scheme of economic warfare against a village that commands the loyalty of so many of us through historical kinship.
The response is to buy helicopters, sniper rifles, recruit more bodies, hang people. There is no vision, no deep thinkers, no ‘will’ to place country before political insecurity. The evidence of the options that face us lie prostrate not in some meaningless crime communiqu
