Lindo Creek massacre…Local authorities still awaiting DNA results

Feb 04, 2012 News

“If we have to spend a million dollars a day we will do it to keep the remains”

– Rohee

The results from the DNA testing for the Lindo Creek victims have not yet arrived in Guyana. The results should have been handed over by January month end, but Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said notwithstanding the commitment given by the Jamaica Forensic team, they have not delivered.
“They had promised us to deliver the remainder of the analysis but they have not delivered…we are in touch with them and we are assured that there results will soon be available,” Rohee said.
Meanwhile, in response to a report in this publication which dealt with the amount of money being spent to store the remains from the Lindo Creek victims, the Minister sought to justify the hefty cost.
The Minister pointed out that the remains are very important to the families as well as the integrity of the investigation.
“The integrity of these remains is important for any further analysis and if it cost a million dollars a day to ensure proper storage we have to do it,” the Minister lamented.
Rohee added that his Government and the police would have come under more scrutiny if they had failed to properly store the remains.
“If we were not doing that (stored the remains at a parlor) and these remains were left stored in a box where rats and cockroaches were interfering with it we would have been worse off and we would have been accused of being delinquent,” Rohee added.
“This is the price we have to pay if we want serious results”.
On June 21, 2008, owner of the Lindo Creek camp, Leonard Arokium, discovered the burnt bones and skulls of his workers, including his son, at the location.
Those who were killed at the site were Dax Arokium, Cedric Arokium, Compton Speirs, Horace Drakes, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee, Bonny Harry and Nigel Torres.
He had reportedly received information that the men were killed the previous week.
According to Arokium, he received a phone call from a woman who told him that some “soldiers” had shot and killed his men and burnt their bodies.
The Joint Services denied the claims made by the dredge owner that soldiers committed the brutal crime.
Police had blamed the attack on Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and his gang whom they said they had encountered during a confrontation at Christmas Falls on June 6, 2008, a few weeks prior to the gruesome discovery.
Rawlins and members of his gang were subsequently hunted down and killed, and the security forces had suggested that the Lindo Creek case had died with them.
Leonard Arokium, in an invited comment stated that the authorities had closed the matter with the death of Rawlins and his gang members.

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