Polygraph all who were in the area of the massacre

Jun 29, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I wholeheartedly agree with Bevon Currie’s suggestion that members of the Joint Services in the area at the time of the massacre of those poor miners should be made to take a polygraph test.

It would even be more valuable if a request could be made to the US government to send down an FBI technician to conduct such testing.

If the ranks pass this test, the business of tracking down those who this process of elimination will point to as being responsible for this latest massacre will be greatly served by the enhanced public confidence in the Joint Services.

There needs to be an investigation into this matter that leaves no germ of suspicion of a cover up. And such investigation should not be conducted by any agency or entity around which suspicions now abound.

Already in Guyana we have a situation where some murders seem to elicit laissez faire attention from officialdom, while others produce fire breathing responses.

This is poignantly and transparently reflected in the selectivity with which the state offers rewards for information in some high profile killings, while ignoring similar action in others.

I do not believe that rewards were offered for information with respect to the assassination of Ronald Waddell or Marcyn King. If rewards were offered then I missed it, and humbly apologise.

I find it more than a mite disconcerting that in a society such as ours, where violence sometimes target people because of their ethnicity, the Government’s reaction to these killings, as well as those of, allegedly hundreds of young black men, ostensibly suspected of being involved in criminality, ironically remains tepid when compared with its reaction to other atrocities like the Sawh assassination, Lusignan, et al.

In every human society, fairness and balance, equality under the law, freedom of speech and assembly, and all of those things that shape the quality of life for an individual or group in such society, require more than lip service or flippant enunciations from politicians and Government officials.

Whether the Government or those who feel comfortable under the umbrella of its authority choose to believe it or not, it is an unequivocal reality that large and particular segments of the Guyanese population perceive themselves as being stratified in the role of a veritable collective Cinderella in the society they live in.

Unless the policies, the conduct and the responses of the political administration to the social and sometime discordant eruptions that seem to have become a permanent feature of every day life in Guyana reflect the absolutism of those values, those essential operants for social and interactive cohesiveness, that which is emanating from their lips amount to nothing more than a command to believe them rather than our lying eyes.
Robin Williams

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