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The very selective memory of Freddie Kissoon

Sep 22, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I have seen that Freddie Kissoon has become the biggest defender of Burnham and the past PNC regime.
He constantly mentions in his articles what Burnham would have done or not done.

His latest diatribe relates to what Burnham would not have done at the UG, in his September 18th 2008 column.

For his information, Burnham has done much worse. It was he who turned the UG into a tool of the PNC regime to victimize and discriminate against lecturers and students.

Maybe Kissoon needs to remind himself that Burnham carried out a witch hunt against many progressive lecturers shortly after he assumed office in the mid-1960s.

Maybe Kissoon has forgotten that Walter Rodney was appointed by the Academic Board, but had his appointment thrown out by the PNC-controlled council, which included Hamilton Green and Viola Burnham.

Kissoon should also recall that Mohamed Inshan Ally was dismissed from his job for showing much less political opposition to the PNC regime than his (Kissoon) vicious, unfounded attacks on the PPP administration.

Kissoon should also recall that it was the PNC-controlled UG that constantly refused to promote real academics, like Dr Paul Singh, because they did not like his politics.

Moreover, it was Kissoon’s lovable Burnham’s regime that plotted and assassinated the academic/activist Walter Rodney. Shall I continue? I don’t think so.

Mr Kissoon seems to have all sense of history (maybe that is why he talks such nonsense as the poetic essence of history, which Mr. Donald Ramotar had asked him to explain and he never did) his memory has become very selective and very sick.

Denzil Constance

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