Granger repeats intention to have Jagdeo era killings probed

President David Granger today reiterated his intention to see a motion passed in Parliament to appoint a Commission of Inquiry which would probe a large number of killings during the tenure of former President Bharrat Jagdeo between 2000 and 2008.

The motion which was first drafted by Granger in 2012, when he was Leader of the Opposition, seeks to investigate among others the killing of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh and the massacres at Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek in 2006.

Granger told a