Blame the opposition for Shaquille Grant’s death

Sep 14, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
When I received an email from a colleague inside the TUC in London informing about tomorrow’s demonstration outside South Africa House in London, in support of the mine workers killed in South Africa and the dismissed bauxite workers in Guyana, my first thought was, why no mention of the slaughtered three at Linden.
Today, we are outraged at the slaughter of young Shaquille Grant. He was gunned down by members of the Guyana Police Force at Agricola, in Guyana. He would have celebrated his 18th birthday a day later.
One ponders the effect of demonstrations at home and worldwide intended to bring to the attention of the global community, the human rights atrocities perpetrated on innocent citizens in Guyana.
As we brave the South American sun or the bitter cold in the UK, Canada and the USA, in solidarity with our battered and bruised communities at home, we are given the reminder that the State murder of young Shaquille Grant sends home strongly the message that a dictatorship is alive and well; that our struggles have reached the highest peaceful peak seem to fall on deaf ears and eyes that refuse to look up.
Today, fellow human rights activists at home and abroad are questioning the roles and responsibilities of the APNU and AFC, the two key parties that make up the joint opposition and hold the majority seats in parliament.
Justifiably, our concerns must be made before the people of Guyana and the wider world that our opposition leaders more than the government must be held responsible and accountable for the present human rights atrocities happening in Guyana.
The 2011 national elections saw how the will of the people forced the hand of change to save Guyana. In 2011 history recorded for us electoral unity and victory between the two fragmented races; Africans and Indians as they look beyond traditional race based politics to save Guyana from corrupt and brutal rulers. We said enough is enough and handed power, majority power to our opposition leaders.
That our government holds a minority status and continues with violations unchecked tells us that opposition politicians are either compromised or are unwilling, because of reasons only known to them, to hold the government genuinely accountable for its continued bad governance.
Tomorrow, outside South Africa House, in London, our anger and protest must be directed at the opposition movement in both South Africa and Guyana.
Today, we grieve for young Shaquille and send our condolences to his family and loved ones. Today, maybe the time has come not to march or call for justice but to fight with every strength and courage we could muster to see justice.
Norman Browne
London

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