Jagdeo’s visit was a freak show

Sep 22, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
As a proud Buxtonian who knows of the destruction waged on the village of Buxton by the Jagdeo administration, my heart filled with sorrow and my bosom burst with anger, when I saw the picture of Mr. Jagdeo and some ‘movers and shakers’ who organized his visit to Buxton.
To me, it was nothing more than a political freak show with some of the ‘movers and shakers’ in their clown suits, welcoming the man who ordered the destruction of their economic survival when he ordered that the Buxton backlands be mowed down.
Is it that some did not? Is it because their economic survival is not tied to the backlands and they eke out a living away from the land?
The same President called Buxtonians criminals and fostered the conditions that led to the death of Donna Herod who was trying to usher her children to safety from both gunmen and security forces who were equally uncaring about the lives of Buxtonians.
To date President Jagdeo has not apologized to the many villagers of Buxton who lived under siege, first from criminals invading their village and then from the state security forces.
If President Jagdeo desires to now befriend Buxtonians he first owes it to Buxtonians to commission an independent inquiry into the events of Buxton since 2002 until Roger Khan’s incarceration because the majority of Buxtonians will not be at rest with flimsy unverified statements made by the security forces or the President and his Ministers as to the reason, or perpetration of criminal activities in Buxton.
This Buxtonian will not accept the carefully orchestrated criminal image of Buxtonians and of any social, cultural or political organization to which Buxtonians are perceived to support without an independent inquiry.
Buxtonians also do not find resolution in the countless deaths of wanted men as a resolution for crime solving, Vigilante justice and the lawless umbrella of crime fighting crime as seen with Roger Khan is not satisfactory to Buxtonians who seek recourse in the law of the land and through a well equipped crime fighting unit that is not a law unto itself.
Least, those Buxtonians who now wine and flounce for the man and the regime which sought to gain political mileage from criminal activity in and around Buxton forget, many were calling for Buxtonians and Buxton to be taken off of the map…to decimate the village and its people and wipe out babes, the young, women and the elderly.
None in Buxton was spared the vicious label and the risk of instant death without question or the right to trial as President Jagdeo gloated over the solution to crime. Buxtonions were denied jobs, thanks to President Jagdeo, simply because they were Buxtonians.
Buxtonians must remember the unjust and inequitable distribution of Government contracts, the torture of Guyanese citizens by members of the joint services, the murders of talk show host Ronald Waddell; Superintendant Leon Fraser whose death was blamed on Buxtonians and led to the murder of Tshaka Blair by uniformed forces; the murder of the Minister of Agriculture, all of which were linked to one black village or another; the marginalization of black villages; destruction of African economy and then using black men for terror duties as hired guns.
The link to narco criminality and politics as revealed with Roger Khan and the possible connection of these to the 2002 Republic day jailbreak that subsequently saw the city transformed to a bloodbath as many businessmen, some of questionable character, were killed or kidnapped and blame laid on the escapees, Buxton and opposition forces.
Today these crimes remain a mystery even though the US trial of Roger Khan has left us with much food for thought. Mr. Jagdeo has again failed to launch an independent inquiry into the many other angles to Roger Khan’s operations and associations.
Those are some of the evils that Mr. Jagdeo needs to address before he can be acceptable to Buxtonians.
As for those Buxtonians who continue the betrayal of their fellow villagers I remind them that the devil comes to the hungry in the form of bread.
Eating the crumbs off of the “massa table” is the trademark of house slaves and this regime should not be allowed to take taxpayers money and scatter it like crumbs from the massa table when Buxtonians are entitled like all others to receive without the circus and parade.
Morris Wilson

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