I am “responsible” for the disappearance of Julius

Oct 01, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The Guyana Police Force is still waiting to speak to the 15-year-old boy named Julius. Julius is the boy featured on a tape that Mark Benschop released in which it is alleged that the other voice on the tape is Kwame Mc Coy.
The official police position is that there can be no investigation unless the boy gives a statement. The boy cannot be found. This is where I come in.
When the story was broken by Benschop, the very night three of us – me, Benschop and a senior reporter of this newspaper – went to the home of Julius to speak to his mother. Some of the relatives were already in the house. In front of the three of us, Julius’s mother got on the phone and spoke at length to him about the contents of the tape.
Before she did that, she listened to an account from Julius’s cousins about homosexual advances made to Julius by the other person on the tape. Julius’s cousin spoke of a long drive and the purchase of gifts. He said that he was uncomfortable with the entire affair.
Julius gave his mother a full description of the friendship he shared with the other person on the tape. Boiling with rage, she demanded that Julius return home from Linden right at the moment. The uncle agreed to go for him. Benschop volunteered his service. I was the one that objected to the trip to Linden. I gave three reasons.
First, if Benschop’s phone and mine were tapped then certain high officials would know we were talking to Julius and will be at Linden to pick him up.
Secondly, if the intention was to prevent Julius from talking then it will be a security risk to have me, Benschop and Julius in one car on a highway on a dark, moonless, starless night surrounded by no man’s land.
Thirdly, even if the authorities didn’t pick up our conversation, by the time we reached Linden, Julius would have informed his purported homosexual lover. So the conspirators, who no doubt were involved in the miasmic attack on me, would still have known that we would be on the highway that night.
My three reasons were persuasive. Benschop bought it and so did the mother and relatives of Julius. The consensus was that Julius would be in Georgetown the next morning to discuss with his mom the nature of the relation with the other guy on the tape.
The rest is now history. Julius and his mother have disappeared. They are not dead. Benschop and I went back to the home weeks after and neighbours told us that the relatives are the care-takers. I assume that Julius and his mother are alive because why would the relatives live in the home, not hear from or see Julius and his mother, and not report that they are missing?
How did they get to live in the house in the first place? My theory is that Julius and his mother have been secretly moved and are very much alive.My assessment of the situation is that the next day, the other man on the tape, the alleged homosexual, used abundant resources to entice mother and son to remain silent. My opinion is that big money has been passed. There is no question in my mind about that. What is of more relevance to me is that if money was given and another location has been assigned to the family then the alleged homosexual could not have possessed such resources on his own.
It meant that he went to his ‘big friends’ and cohorts and they invented a plan to save him. He has been saved. I really don’t know if mother and son were shipped out of Guyana or may have been transferred to a far region in Guyana. Knowing the huge resources that the fascists use to cover up their horrible sins it is possible that Julius may be in a high school using another first name and Julius, his middle name.
All this time, I never wrote about the role I played in the shape the story took. In July this year, Benschop, in front of Lincoln Lewis and Dr. David Hinds, suggested that I write about my role in the now invisible person named Julius. I agreed. Here it is.
I have no regrets about the position I took that night in the home of Julius’ mother. I still believe it was an immense security risk to be on that highway so late if state authorities knew we were there. I may have saved my own life and that of Mark Benschop.

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