When will the Americans move against the Guyana Government?

Apr 19, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The role of visa denial has been a formidable weapon in the endeavours of the American Government to get tyrannical Third World governments to conform to international standards of human rights. In a country like Guyana such a policy can go a long way in forcing high-level members of the ruling regime to adhere to the principles of democratic governance.
The example of a certain Minister (related to the President through marriage) underscores how important it is to have American status.
This gentleman had his wife travel twice to the US to secure American citizenship for their children at birth. This is a serious indictment against a politician. Any Jamaican would tell you that if that had happened on the island, that Minister’s career would have died instantly. I plan to hit the election campaign trail and I will tell the Guyanese people about this outrageous act against Guyanese nationalism.
Speaking to his party members in Berbice last week, President Jagdeo said that the media wants to define who “we are” meaning the PPP leadership. But this Minister in question has certainly defined who he is and what he wants his children to be.
Let us return to the America visa sanction. It has been used effectively in the past (see my column last Thursday) and it should be applied in the circumstances of the Canadian refugee case that is making the headlines in Guyana. The story involved an IT specialist in the public sector who was coerced into breaking into certain web sites known to be critical of the PPP Government.
He refused to do more dirty work, including hacking into the e-mails of certain critics of the government. My name appears in the tribunal report along with Mark Benschop, Peter Ramsaroop, Khemraj Ramjattan, Robert Corbin , Sheila Holder and Raphael Trotman. After violent tactics were applied to him and his wife, he got to Canada where he applied for asylum for his family. The refugee board of Canada accepted his complaints.
The redacted report is on two web sites – Mark Benschop’s Guyanaobservernews.org and demerarawaves.com. The latter only named a certain Minister. Benschop’s site cited the identities of one of the top officers in the police force and a well known figure of the night associated with extra-judicial violence.
I have seen this report that also names certain political figures and a well known Atlantic resort in Georgetown. This episode makes for frightening reading. It is the continuing saga of the concretization of fascism under the rule of the PPP.
It is incumbent on all of us who have seen this report to disseminate its contents. We should thank Mark Benschop and Dennis Chabrol for carrying extracts and citing names on their respective online media entities. Should the society let this one go by?
We had a another case three years ago in which the Canadians granted refugee status to a 14-year-old girl from West Coast Demerara who carries the last name of one of the more prominent opposition figures. She was raped at a business place by two men who are politically connected to the throne. She named a powerful political boss who saw her crying as he was driving into the compound.
At the hearing in Canada, the refugee board was satisfied that her life would be in danger if she returned to Guyana. Those two businessmen have had their visas revoked.
The fascist content of the present situation is far more horrible than the rape episode. A Minister of Government acting in consort with one of the top cops in Guyana violently coerced a public servant to commit criminal acts involving human rights violations. After he refused to do more nasty things, his family was made to suffer.
It has reached the stage where all of us have now got to show our anger at what has occurred. We must send the tribunal report to the American Embassy. We must demand visa sanctions against the persons identified in the documents.
We wait to see what the combined opposition is going to do. Will they continue to crawl back into Parliament and proceed with business as usual? Look where we have come to. We expended our blood to fight these monstrosities under the Burnham presidency. But the political perversities we are witnessing now far exceed the excesses of President Burnham.
Where are all those who were critical of Burnham? Are they afraid? Have they been bought out? Are they motivated by racial solidarity? The time for confrontation with Guyanese fascism is long overdue.

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