A flimsy piece of rhetoric from which to seek refuge

Jan 27, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am not surprised at President Jagdeo’s recent statement outlining Guyana’s refusal to arrest convicted international drug dealer and President of Suriname Mr. Desi Bouterse at the behest of some foreign mission.
Highlighting the fact that the Surinamese people had duly elected their President and that Guyana has no role to play in deciding who it works with is a flimsy piece of rhetoric from which to seek refuge.
While Mr. Bouterse might be a popular political figure in Suriname, he is also an international fugitive; a known drug lord, a criminal!
The NRC Handelsblad (http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/01/22/desi-bouterse-bleef-tot-in-2006-actief-in-drugscriminaliteit/) [you need to translate to English] reported on Saturday that: “The current president of Suriname, Desi Bouterse was given by the cables the means to supplement his income with drug trafficking.
His possible involvement in drug trafficking is based on information from 2006, when Bouterse was still MEP.
In that year, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, according to the U.S. the largest drug criminal in Guyana, was arrested in Suriname by the police. Khan had information according to the “social and operational links” with Desi Bouterse.
In the diplomatic post are places where Bouterse in Suriname called and Khan would have met each other. Bouterse also regularly traveled to Guyana, despite an international search warrant against him.
Khan organised according to the U.S. including “gun-for-drugs deals for the Colombian rebel group FARC. Bouterse and Khan were also involved in “murders and planned murders’ at home.” (The English is according to Google Translate)
Have you noticed that in all this the common denominator remains Roger Khan? I strongly believe until a thorough independent inquiry into the activities of the Guyana Government between 2001 and 2006 as it relates to their involvement with Roger Khan is conducted, Guyanese will never know how immersed Government was with criminality.
Think about this.
Which foreign mission would seriously ask the Guyana Government to arrest a Drug Lord President?
Guyana cannot even arrest its own drug lord pimps because of insufficient evidence according to the Minister of Home Affairs. Guyana could not even arrest Khan when he claimed Dark Knight status!
If Mr. Bouterse is seriously wanted at the international level, he will be captured.
But Guyana at least under this current administration will never play a role in facilitating that course of action. The President made that clear!
Richard Francois

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