Gov’t told US: Sawh murder ‘greatest threat to democracy’

-Roger Khan cited in cable as possible suspect

The murder of Minister Satyadeow Sawh on April 22, 2006 posed the “gravest threat” to democracy, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon told the US Ambassador during an appeal to Washington for a range of help in the probe.

Then Ambassador Roland Bullen in a cable to Washington on May 4, 2006 – the second on the matter – related how at a meeting on April 24 at the Office of the President, President Bharrat Jagdeo and Luncheon were of the view that public patience had worn thin