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Mar 04, 2009 Letters

DEar Editor,
Albert Marchand’s letter in Kaieteur News’ March 3, 2009 edition is yet another attempt to demonize Burnham.
For example, his last paragraph speaks volumes and demonstrates a glaring one sided view of Guyana during Burnham’s regime – an unfortunate myopia.
We can ignore the earlier portions of his letter. In an attempt to flay Burnham, he states that: “At a time of plenty in neighbouring Trinidad (because of the oil boom in the 1970s) Guyana was experiencing want. Guyanese began to leave, legally and illegally”.
Here comes the racist, political punch line by Marchand. He stated: “Indians at first, and then others; they went to Trinidad and Canada and the United States, etc.”
His statement is not supported by all available evidences or facts; the truth is, after the war ended in 1945 many Afro-Guyanese moved to the UK and later the US for opportunities not available at home.
He talks of Canada. It was during the PPP communist regime that we experienced a mass exodus of Guyanese to Canada and elsewhere. Nearly all of our Portuguese, Chinese and Syrian brothers and sisters left.
LFS Burnham died in 1985. Check the figures – back track became popular long after his passing up until now.
Could he say why the same Indians he talks about line up from early morning outside the US and Canadian Embassies for visas? This is happening now, twenty four years after Burnham’s demise and seventeen years of PPP Government.
Let us have a public debate on this and allied issues and stop this rewriting of our history.
I am willing at any time to sit in the open with all of these letter writers to emancipate the truth – in a public place.
Hamilton Green

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