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Where were these leaders when the shooting started?
Dear Editor,
My blood boiled when I read the headline of Kaieteur news of July 19, 2012 which screamed, “Linden protest turns deadly, four dead two dozen injured.” The political opposition APNU and AFC were not indicating that the protest which began on Wednesday was likely to come into being.
Surely those who protested were supporters of both the APNU and AFC. The question which I ask is, “Were the people of Linden entitled to the leadership of APNU and AFC in this protest?” How is it that no leader of APNU and AFC was in the forefront to face the volley of bullets and protect the people.
I remember well the assault at the Office of the President when the people marched all the way from as far as Belladrum on the West Coast of Berbice.
When the march reached New Garden Street, Robert Corbin lost his way and somehow found himself in the vicinity of the Ministry of Finance when the volley of bullets were fired at his comrades at New Garden Street. It is not the citizens who were shot and killed that day it was the PNC which lost its life.
Again I recall the killing of Mc Kinnon in the vicinity of Freedom House. Where were the leaders of the PNC? I recall well, after the Lusignan massacre the people were marching for Georgetown. I learnt that the police were going to fire at the crowd to ensure that the march did not reach Georgetown.
In the vicinity of Beterverwagting I noticed that the police had taken up battle position. I tried to turn back the march and placed myself between the marchers and the police and the marchers, women were crying and stating that they intended to die that day.
It only when Dr Ram the dentist at Annandale came that the people halted. He knew many of them personally. We were not leaders of anyone.
Where were the old soldiers, Granger, Collins and Harmon, where was the former Commission of Police Felix, where were lovers of people Benschop and Kissoon, where were the champions of black rights David Hinds Lincoln Lewis, where was Ramjattan? I spit upon them all.
The people of Linden must not allow these Honourable gentlemen and their cohorts to swim in political power in the tide of African blood.
Vic Puran
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