Lindo Creek slaughter…Forensic teams yet to prepare substantive report on findings

Aug 18, 2008 News

The forensic experts from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica are yet to compile a substantive report of their findings at Lindo Creek, where eight miners were slaughtered and burnt at a mining camp.
This is according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Secretary to the Defence Board, Dr Roger Luncheon.
The Guyana Government had initially requested the assistance of the American Government to provide a forensic team to investigate the incident, following controversy surrounding who were the perpetrators of the miners’ deaths.
While the police say they have irrefutable evidence, including an eyewitness account, that the miners were killed by a gang of criminals headed by Guyana’s wanted man Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins, the owner of the camp, Leonard Arokium, is insisting that it is the work of the security forces who were operating in the area to capture the elusive gang.
This assertion by Arokium prompted several calls for independent inquiries and international experts to do the forensic investigations.
To date, the police have already announced that they have a suspect in connection with the murders of the eight men, whose cremated remains were discovered early June last at the Lindo Creek, Berbice River (78 miles south of Kwakwani along the Unamco trail) mining camp.
“The eyewitness has said that the men were attacked by ‘Fine Man’ and his gang. “They went there, attacked the men….tied them up, cooked and then the following night they (the miners) were shot and killed.”
This was related to the media operatives recently by Commissioner of Police (ag.) Henry Greene.
The witness is yet to be bought before the courts, and the reason for the lengthy delay is unclear.
The incident reportedly occurred even as the Joint Services were pursuing Rawlins and his gang after raiding their Christmas Falls (10 miles from Lindo Creek) hideout a few days earlier.
According to the top cop, the killer gang arrived at Lindo Creek, which is on the same side of the Berbice River as the Christmas Falls base.
Ballistics tests on the spent shells recovered from the scene revealed that one of those shells matched one of the weapons that were recovered by the security forces from slain gunmen Cecil Ramcharran, called ‘Uncle Willie,’ and Robin Chung, called ‘Chung Boy’.
The others match those recovered from crime scenes at Bartica and Triumph, East Coast Demerara.
Owner of the mining camp where the miners were killed, Leonard Arokium, has maintained that the killing of his employees was not the work of the notorious fugitive.
Arokium had expressed strong belief that his employees were killed by members of the security forces operating in the area.
He had explained that it would have been foolish for ‘Fine Man’ and his gang, who were fleeing from the security forces, to risk going to his camp and take the time to burn the bodies of his employees after killing them.

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