What would a Canadian immigration judge say to this?

May 11, 2011 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Mr. Clement “goat ain’t bite meh” Rohee is still in a daze as to how the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board could accept a refugee-claimant’s accusation against him without an explanation from Mr. Rohee himself.
There is a general approach to these matters. Then there is the particular country profile that the judge would look at.
Firstly, it is not standard procedure to ask the violator for a comment because the aggressor normally denies the charges. Where does that leave the judge? Computer technician, Mr. Lall, named a high-level Minister of the Guyana Government, Clement Rohee, of coercing him to engage in spying on anti-government activists.
The judge then puts the question to Mr. Rohee. “Sir, did male agents of your government take Mr. Lall’s wife to the Celina Atlantic Resort and after humiliating her by ripping her clothes off, threatened her with physical violence if her husband didn’t obey your orders?”
So let me ask readers if they think Rohee would say; “Judge Waters, I am sorry to have done that?” This is a Minister that has nineteen years of Cabinet experience and we have not had an apology from him in that period even though he has made some appalling statements for which his resignation should have been demanded. One relates to the members of the security forces’ practice of torture of suspects.
He nonchalantly told the press that he has so much to deal with that why should he be asked about torture. Secondly, in the most dismissive manner, he told the media that the Brickdam lock-up is not the Pegasus when sub-human conditions in that place were raised by the media.
This writer was incarcerated in that dungeon for three days and two nights. It is a violation of international law for which charges should be brought against Mr. Rohee by a new government in this land. The worst concentration camps under Stalin and Hitler may have been more comfortable and civilized than what I saw in that lock-up when I was remanded there with Mark Benschop on a traffic charge last December.
To date this Minister has not, even in a concise note, the briefest one can expect, explained to the Guyanese public why he was refused an American visa for six months in 2004. The point is the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada will not ask the accused governmental official for an explanation because thousands of them who have violated the rights of their citizens have told the Boards in the past that the allegations are not true. That is what they all say.
Minister Leslie Ramsammy, despite a plausible case against him, has completely denied and continues to reject charges that he had a facilitating relationship with convicted narco-king, Roger Khan
Over the last ten years (since Mr. Jagdeo became President) 3148 Guyanese applied for refugee status and received it from Canada. It is doubtful whether main actors in the Guyana Government were requested by the Canadian Board to offer explanations on the allegations that would have been made against them by those claimants.
Here is why. A Guyanese goes over to Canada and puts in an application for asylum. He claims that the rule of law is broken down in Guyana and one cannot get justice. The judge then decides to research this country named Guyana. He ‘Googles’ and finds that Charles Ramson is the Attorney-General
Here is what he will find. The Attorney-General of a country in the modern world stands up in front of the main journalists of his country, at his press briefing, and says words to the effect that when he heard the talk going around about a Minister being involved in illegal situations, he thought it was he they were referring to because he is a person given to doing those kinds of things.
Once a refugee judge sees that type of behaviour from the chief legal officer of a country, he is going to approve the plea of the victim.
The first picture that will come into view as the judge reads that abomination is that Guyana is a failed state where civilized rule has broken. I will end this column by asking any decent person to put himself in the place of a refugee adjudicator where you are being asked to allow a person to stay in your country on the basis of harassment in the victim’s homeland and you come across a boast by the attorney-general of the foreign land saying that he is a man that engages in illegal activities.
You are bound to approve the request for asylum.

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