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A Commission of Inquiry into the Linden unrest will bear no fruit
Dear Editor,
History has a way of repeating itself. The Wismar disturbances of 1964 saw the resignation of Janet Jagan in June, 1964; as minister responsible for the police. History has it recorded that she complained that the Commissioner of Police, one Mr. Owen and his men set hard test papers for rural recruits and easy test papers for city recruits so as to create a racial imbalance in the police force. She also accused the Police at Wismar of standing by and allowing Indians to be murdered.
What we had recently in Linden was a President, A Home Affairs Minister and a Commissioner of Police standing by and allowing Africans to be murdered.
The sad thing is that the President has stood beside his Home Affairs Minister and has not called on him to resign: A little learning is a dangerous thing and we are seeing the manifestation of this in the Home Affairs Minister.
We have seen so many Commissions of Inquiries being set up over the years in Guyana with no real result. A Commission of Inquiry into the recent disturbance in Linden will bear no fruit. The President and his entire Cabinet should resign immediately. There are so many witnesses to the Linden murders that there is no need for any further corroboration. In 1964, a Commission of Inquiry into the Wismar disturbances was formed with Harold Drayton, acting Head of the University of Guyana, Mrs. Rajkumarie Singh and Queens Counsel JOF Haynes.
This Commission was barely formed when in July, 1964, a motor launch, the ‘Sun Chapman’ was blown to pieces on the Demerara River.
The People of Guyana must know also that in 1964 one Fairban called Batson was arrested by a party of Policemen headed by an Assistant Superintendant. At the Brickdam lockups, it is said that Fairban was beaten and as a result nine police officers were charged with assaulting him. As a result, two officers were called on to resign. They were Mc Grill Smith and Superintendent Randolph Lambert. Likewise, the officers responsible for the shooting and killing of innocent persons at Linden should be charged and tried in a court of law.
Kenneth Chance
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