Get one thing straight about that tortured boy!

Nov 04, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Get one thing straight about that 14-year-old boy who was tortured – if this newspaper didn’t expose the heinous crime, the political bosses would have covered it up. They have obfuscated more serious crimes than torture. Death is the ultimate act of evil.
The security forces have killed people without just cause and their political bosses know that these violations have occurred.
Is there anyone out there who believes that Mr. Rohee and Ms Manickchand’s feelings are based on genuine emotions? Well you have the right to your opinion so do I. And I do not believe them. They are caught and the semantics of sympathy will flow from their hypocritical lips.
Where are the words of Rohee and Manickchand about the Lindo Creek massacre? Let me state unambiguously here my opinion about Lindo Creek. I was the first media operative that Mr. Arokium, head of the camp, spoke to.
He showed me the map. The “Fine Man” gang on the run from the security forces could not have moved from Christmas Falls and find themselves at Lindo Creek. It was not possible.
You cannot drive away from the police at Better Hope who have put up a barricade at Sheriff Street and the East Coast High and try to make it down the lower East Coast. The police will encounter you.
Our opposition parties and concerned civil society groups had their best opportunity to get international law to prosecute the Government of Guyana on Lindo Creek. Any trained intelligence officer from Scotland Yard and the FBI, looking at the map of Berbice, would know that Lindo Creek and Christmas Fall are not neighbours. The Lindo Creek massacre could have landed these rogue rulers in hot water if the opposition forces had done their home work.
There is still a chance to do so. There is an army private charged for the Ramdass murder at Parika who may have witnessed the butchery at Lindo Creek. The opposition parties and civil society groups must demand that a foreign specialist interrogate him.
The horrible and horrific mistreatment of the fourteen-year-old boy cries out for sanctions against the Guyana Government and its leading autocrats but we must not delude ourselves into thinking that this is the worst crime the security forces and their political directors have committed.
The accused ranging from the “Fineman” gang to other criminals, have had their lives snuffed out without recourse to due process.
The political directors are happy to live a life without shame in that they shared state power with a citizen who has been convicted in the US for cocaine trafficking and conspiracy to kill a witness. Who says that little boy’s plight will move them to tears?
One of the hidden dimensions of the Bisram murder (out of which the little boy was picked up and torched) is that the political lords in the corridors of power may have given the police orders to get an arrest quickly and to make sure the accused confess. This is an aspect of the sordid tale that needs journalistic investigation.
Mr. Bisram was a very active member of the PPP West Demerara operations. I was told that he was a delegate at the PPP Congress last August. Can the PPP clarify this? Mention was made that he was one of the chief PPP election strategists for the entire territory of West Demerara. I was informed that the night at his home, a number of PPP bigwigs turned up to offer their condolences. Nothing wrong with this. We should all offer our sympathies to his family and justice for his family must be served. Mr. Bisram’s image should not be lowered because of what his friends in power did.
My point is, however, did the political autocrats pressure the police into getting quick results and when the political oligarchs were told that some accused were in the police station, did they convey a meaning to the police that maximum pressure must be exerted? The rumour is that Mr. Rohee knew Mr. Bisram very well. That is what I was told. I don’t know if that is so – Guyana is a country where all kinds of things are said.
But even if Mr. Rohee knew him, it doesn’t mean that Mr. Rohee intervened with the police. But before rumours start to take wings, Mr. Rohee should state if he had a close friendship with Mr. Bisram. I close by appealing to this nation not to engage in political masturbation.
This little boy’s plight should involve the sacking of the ultimate political employers of the police force. It is called moral obligation.

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