We should repress memories for Guyana’s good

Oct 20, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Retired Brigadier David Granger presented as the potential Presidential candidate of the PNCR is a refreshing and positive infusion to a dismal and defeated national spirit. Like most Guyanese I am angered, but not surprised at the attempts by Randy Persaud, Jinnah Rahman and even Vic Puran, to gaze upward and throw stones of frustration at the character of an accomplished citizen cum candidate that by all means outstrides any that can be invoked from their soiled cup of preference.
But it is Vic Puran’s letter that is most revealing as it demonstrates profound self conflict, the nature of a ‘Shape shifter’. He abuses the usage of the term moral consciousness while he tries to shroud his callous opportunism. This person has remained silent during the recent bloodbath conducted by his ‘Client/s which also involves the political murder of Ronald Waddell among dozens of others yet he utters the word ‘Moral choice’?
One definition comes to my mind ‘Despicable’. Now that the ‘1973 incident’ as it pertains to Mr. Granger’s military involvement has been disproved there should be no further mention of such. To continue this public charade as a political mantra constitutes ‘Defamation of Character’ and matures into a legal creature through which, accusers should be made to prove to the nation through the courts the facts behind their accusations.
I too have memories of 1973. I was at Kuru Kuru Co-operative College, the compound that is; the college was still in construction. I was a member of KAYS (Kuru Kuru Agro Young Settlers Co op society). Most of us were not old enough to vote and there were pigs, poultry and crops to be attended so a skeleton staff was on duty, during the elections period.
The politics pervaded the air and we were not immune. The facts are that many of us had memories of the disturbances of 1963/64 and the gentlemen who now accuse Brig. Granger must know that it was the PPP that had launched a race war for power in this country— the Sun Chapman, The School bus, George and Hadfield Streets, the Sealy’s of Buxton, the uses of ‘John Bakal and other incidents were fresh in our minds.
A group of us approached our camp manager and in the presence of two of our GDF auxiliaries, we advocated our concerns about why the Afro-Guyanese PPP media person who we understood was responsible for placing an explosive on the Sun Chapman was not charged, etc, etc.
I was more concerned with the death of the father of my older favourite cousin at Mahaicony [Pastor Waldron] as far as I knew then one of the Essequibo Bank robbers were involved.
It was the PPP who had the Cuban trained terrorists and munitions back then; they were responsible for unleashing Guyana’s first race war. However, we were lectured to a policy the PNC had quietly instituted, that in the interest of building Guyana some memories had to be repressed, like the two contending mothers before Solomon. The genuine one understood that compromises had to be made.
We grumbled and left. Years later I began to understand, while working at GRB Indo Guyanese whispered to me of atrocities committed against relatives of theirs who were with the MPCA which was persecuted and replaced by GAWU.
It is difficult to understand that any rational mind can entertain a debate on rigged elections on behalf of an Administration that has criminalized this nation, wages a political war on the Capital, wishes for an epidemic to unravel itself and denies an investigation into the national bloodbath carried out by the Phantom Gangs’ unless themselves ‘guilty’.
Barrington Braithwaite

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