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Dec 07, 2009 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

Those who are anxious for some sort of political luck to fall their way, or rather to fall on top of the government so as to embarrass it, will be sorely disappointed if they feel that the US authorities have top officials of the ruling administration under its radar.
There is no way that any revelations coming out of the United States courts will be used to refashion official policy towards the ruling administration. If the United States of America was convinced that there was any conspiracy between drug runners and the Government of Guyana, it would have already acted.
That it has not done so, however has not dampened the enthusiasm of those who are the purveyors of what is being deemed a “dossier” on extra judicial killings, a document which could have been compiled – and may have very well been- by any schoolchild with copies of the daily newspapers from 2001 to the present.
That the opposition, in the face of what this country underwent as a result of the opposition’s own actions during that eventful but tragic period in our history, could have such selected amnesia about the context in which the many recorded extra judicial deaths took place and dance with excitement at untested testimony emerging from the United States Court, is a measure of the degree of political desperation within its ranks.
The memories of the people of this country are however not short. They know very well what gave rise to what. They know the origins of the crime wave and they knew its effects. They knew what was said and what was done during that period by certain politicians and they knew what was not said and what was not done.
They know that a former Home Affairs Minister was deemed as a co-conspirator with the phantoms. His character was assassinated. He was accused of all manner of things including heading the phantom squad. He was deemed guilty by his political opponents. Even though he was exonerated by a commission of inquiry, his accusers would not relent and this forced his banishment to a political posting overseas.
Now that there is now a “new culprit”, someone else now at which the very persons are pointing their fingers, those who compiled the dossier and who were in the forefront of the public” lynching” of this former Minister of Home Affairs should come out and offer an apology to that Minister because it is them who are now saying that it was a drug runner who was behind the phantom killings.
Based on the “mouthing” of a discredited man by the name of George Bacchus, the opposition in this country wrongly condemned a Minister of the government, accusing him of heading a death squad and forcing a commission of inquiry and subsequently even a statement from the US Department of State.
Now they want us to believe, again based on untested but sworn testimony, that someone else was behind all the bestiality.
Now since a man cannot be killed twice, his death cannot first be linked to one person and then later be linked to the actions of another. Either his death was caused by one or the other or by neither. Therefore, since the opposition is convinced that drug runners were behind the phantom murders, it cannot be that these murders were the handiwork of the person to whom they have tried to link these deaths in the past so much so that they even said that the man headed the phantom squads.
The opposition and the US Department of State therefore owe this man a public apology for the pain and suffering they have caused him and his family.
The new dossier is not going to fly until this glaring contradiction is cleared up. But while those involved contemplate the conundrum in which they find themselves, they should equally consider that there are other dossiers which have or can be complied about the period in question and in fact can be done using some of the very names used in the recent dossier.
The memories of the Guyanese people are not short. They know what took place in this country during certain political protests. They know about the citizens who were undressed and fondled in public; they know about the persons who were set upon in the streets, the fires that were lit and the general acts of destabilisation that took place aimed at shutting the country down.
They also know about the agencies that were behind these actions and the silence that came from some of the very quarters that are now so vocal. They know and cannot be fooled.

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