One of the men accused of planning Rodney’s murder

Feb 01, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

In response to the motion by the Opposition Leader for an official inquiry into the period of violence between 2002 and 2005, the ruling PPP has suggested a Truth Commission (TC) to start from the seventies. The strange working of the IQ of the collective minds of the occupants of Freedom House never ceases to amaze the Guyanese people.
First, it was from the halls of the WPA that the call for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission first emerged.
Secondly, the Government could have upstaged the PNC by moving to set up such a commission and let the world judge who didn’t want it. But suppose the PPP itself does not want a TC and is only into grandstanding? Which of the two major political powerhouses (PPP and PNC) stand to lose more by a TC? Another question is; of the two, whose psychology will take more bruising and who are more likely to be shattered by the testimonies?
I find that more PNC personnel and more African Guyanese are willing to concede that Mr. Burnham did harmful things and the PNC Government did a lot of wrong to Guyana. The opposite obtains in the PPP camp and among East Indians. From the sixties onwards, all PPP inductees have been insanely indoctrinated with the myth that Guyana’s political history is about a great, humane PPP being traumatized by the PNC.
At a very deep psychological level, they accept this good guy versus bad guy fiction. It is quite possible that everything that Ralph Ramkarran published recently about the fears the PPP has of the PNC, he honestly believes.
Mrs. Jagan spent sixty years forcing down the throat of all PPP senior and junior leaders the destined role of the PPP and the evil forces bent on destroying the PPP. A sizeable section of the East Indian population sees the PPP’s politicians as far better than the PNC’s.
The colossal problem for the PPP that will emerge with a TC is that it will shatter the illusion and delusion that they were and are better than the PNC. In other words, the PPP has more to lose than the PNC with the holding of a TC. African Guyanese on hearing what Burnham did will probably say, “Tell us what we don’t know.”
Indians on the other hand, on hearing of the nasty acts of the PPP will say, “We never knew this.” The PPP, then, will never implement a TC because it has to keep infusing in Indians the good guy versus bad guy opiate.
One can start with the bad PNC guys who did so many wrongs to this nation and are now the intimate (not close, but real intimate) buddies of the top PPP leaders. How will Indians react when they hear testimonies about the men who were accused by the WPA of planning and executing of the assassination of Walter Rodney, one of which is a top, top confidante of a top, top king in the corridors of power?
And it is not that the PPP leaders didn’t know. WPA people would have told them since 1980 when the PPP and WPA were really close, as to who the planners were.
All those with close connection to the WPA party know about this fellow. WPA personnel have shared this information with PPP stalwarts. No one can tell me, (and I refuse to believe it if you bring it to me) that Rupert Roopnaraine between 1980 and 1992 did not tell Gail Teixeira who was this man. These two politicians were close politically (still are up to this day) during this period.
It was Gail Teixeira, through Rupert Roopnaraine, who asked that I be removed from the WPA delegation to the Patriotic Coalition for Democracy in 1985 and the WPA agreement was conveyed to me at my home by Tacuma Ogunseye and Dr. Joshua Ramsammy.
The saga about a Truth Commission is that what we think are evil secrets of the PNC are actually public knowledge. The PNC’s diabolical role is well documented and is known to most Guyanese. The witnesses will tell Guyanese what Guyanese already know about Vincent Teekah’s death, etc.
Do Guyanese know all the dimensions of the murder of ‘Sash’ Sawh? And for sure the brother-in-law of Sawh will testify. How is the PPP going to face the world when testimony about the circumstances involving five men who were charged for treason under the Desmond Hoyte Government comes to light? Who in the PPP were in contact with these men? Can the PPP endure the testimony about its friendship with Roger Khan? Will the PPP survive a Truth Commission?

Latest News

One of the men accused of planning Rodney’s murder

Related

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show|| March, 17th, 2025

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

NSC, Office of the DPP to host Criminal Law and Sexual Offences Act...

Lucas Chung maintains strong standing at 2nd...

Farm Supplies Ltd. supports Bartica Regatta 2025

Legislation and Investment: Trinidad to Brazil,...

Three more matches billed for this weekend

CM Khan rules at 2025 National Blitz Chess...

Features/Columnists

“One Guyana” is no less a national slogan than “Green Guyana”

If Guyana’s President Ali is the “Zelensky of the Caribbean”, who is the Putin?

Partner v. investor

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]

One of the men accused of planning Rodney’s murder

Share this:

Related

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show|| March, 17th, 2025

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Features/Columnists

Publisher’s Note

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]