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What exactly is the combined opposition hoping for?

Oct 27, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Notwithstanding the fact that that hundreds of innocent men women and children were brutally murdered, raped and set alight, we are now once again hearing from the opposition parties that an enquiry must be held for those “innocent persons who were gunned down.”
It must first of all be made crystal clear that the opposition has used the race card once more to appeal to their supporters. It is within this context we must comprehend that those who were neutralized were not Pastors, Pandits or Imaams. Most if not all of those persons were criminals.
Amazingly, their deaths led to a significant reduction in crime, which makes the opposition’s call for an inquiry into their deaths more perplexing.
This could only lead one to conclude as has long been suspected that the opposition is bent on acquiring political office by any means necessary even if it amounts to colluding with criminals in an effort to undermine the democratically elected government.
When Inspector Gadget, Dale Moore, Shawn Brown et all were killed, no one cared how or why, in fact many were happy that they were no more a menace to society. Guyana had become a better place without them.
Now for the other side of the coin: if the opposition had called for an inquiry into the deaths of the members of the security services who were brutally executed in the line of duty, (the traffic cop at Regent and King Streets comes to mind) then perhaps such calls would have been justified.
If they had requested an inquiry into the deaths of the couple who was gunned down in Annanadale, or the father and son shot in the backdam and the many more such examples then one would have understood that their current call falls within the context of comprehending what took place during that time.
This call for an inquiry is more so alarming since it wasn’t only “innocent black men” who were part of this notorious gang, they were Indians and Amerindians involved.
This leads me to ask again, “what exactly is the combined opposition hoping for?”
Baldeo Mathura

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