The Guyanese people must demand these soldiers take a polygraph

Aug 25, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The worst is yet to come and come it will. I speak as someone who lived under Burnham and saw the angry reaction of this entire nation, but greater tempest came from the East Indian population, to the scandals and mistakes of the PNC Government. What Burnham did was a drop in the ocean to what is unfolding under the PPP Government that sadly and tragically will have its climax in a Kafkaesque nightmare. This is a pathway we can avoid.
We have been there before. We have been there more than one time. We have just been there in Lusignan, but the lessons of history to a majority of politicians who have power is like what my mom used to say when she scolded her children, “it is like throwing water on duck’s back.” Everyday a nasty scandal breaks out among the political elites and inside the corridors of power, many of which no other CARICOM state would accept and tolerate.
We in Guyana just let the days pass by and as we watch the dragon devour our land and as he looks for more prey, we just carry on. With a Freudian sub-conscious, we know the apogee of resentment will free us and we wait for the denouèment that will put an end to a country’s misery. But the road is long and winding and it appears to have no ending and thus we carry on.
When and where is the next flow of political miasma? The allegations of the wife of the Head of State as what Ms. Varshnie Singh exclaimed to the entire population would have caused tsunamis in any other CARICOM country. The nation lived through a non-existent legal marriage and when the pages were opened, and we saw the charade, we carried on without a demand.
Our leaders who supposed to be the alternative to those who give us nightmares, happily walked into Parliament as if nothing happened – the First Lady was never really the First Lady. We endured the atrocity of Lindo Creek and it faded away like a flower in winter. The summer weather is hot in Guyana and it has re-fertilized the mind that wants answers about Lindo Creek.
Lindo Creek should never have gone away from the briefcases of our dapperly dressed opposition parliamentarians; those who want us to vote them in as an alternative to the little tyrants of Robb Street who have inherited Mr. Burnham’s throne. I was the first media operative that the owner of the mining camp at Lindo Creek, Leonard Arokium spoke to about what happened at his camp when eight of his employees including his son and another relative were murdered with extreme violence then burned into ashes. I informed the Kaieteur News and the Stabroek News and together with their journalists and Colin Smith, editor of the Catholic Standard, we met in Colin’s office.
Arokium was as convincing as Usain Bolt when he is on the track, Michael Jackson when he was on stage and Brian Lara when he was on the pitch. With his map of Lindo Creek and Christmas Falls, it was scientifically impossible for the Fineman gang fleeing Christmas Falls to reach Lindo Creek without being caught.
The map of the area is there for any sensible mind to see. We all looked at it and even an ignorant human being without a proper education could be guided to show that these were forests separated by a mountainous range. For Fineman’s marauders to run from the army and get to Lindo Creek would have been impossible. This is my opinion after examining the map.
We are now hearing that one of the Coast Guard soldiers who is allegedly involved in the Parika murder of Dweive Ramdass a few days ago, has indicated that he was part of a military contingent that was at Lindo Creek. The police and Government have blamed Fineman without providing once inch of evidence. Commissioner Greene said he has an eyewitness who is as invisible as the ghost of Adolf Hitler on Regent Street.
All stakeholders must demand that the FBI and Scotland Yard or the Canadian Mounties be invited to interrogate that contingent of soldiers at Christmas Falls who were hunting the Fineman group. They must take the lie detector test. How much more brutality to the soul of this nation must the Guyanese people take? Eight miners were murdered in cold blood and this writer does not believe it was the work of Fineman and his violent cabal. The State and the Government in Guyana are out of control.

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