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Hamilton Green perpetuates the big lie

May 22, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
Permit me to respond to a ridiculous statement made by Mayor Hamilton Green in his letter published in Kaieteur News on Friday May 17, 2013, captioned “The real Burnham is hardly known”.
Mr. Green in his missive told readers about a meeting he attended in New York, shortly after the assassination of Walter Rodney. He claimed he was asked about Burnham’s involvement in Rodney’s demise. In his letter he stated his response to the question.
My concern is with the following aspect of his response “Did Rodney know he was in possession of something other than a walkie-talkie – his colleagues claimed then he was parked outside of the Georgetown Prison to test a walkie-talkie”.  This Nancy story we were told, ended the questioning on Burnham’s involvement in the Rodney assassination issue.
I am not now in a position to challenge the accuracy of Green‘s report on the meeting, therefore I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. Only he and the Almighty are in a position to say whether he is speaking the truth. What I do know is that the content of his report is consistent with his political posture at the time of Rodney’s assassination that was, one of pure deception.
For the record I wish to state that I am challenging the truthfulness of his statement that Rodney’s colleagues in the WPA claimed at the time that Rodney had parked outside of the Georgetown Prison to test a warlike- talkie.
This is nothing but a deliberate attempt on Green’s part to misrepresent the WPA’s position and the information of the survivor of the bomb blast, Donald Rodney, which is contained in the public statement he made. Green is fully aware that that was not the WPA position. He is also aware that we in the WPA had never made such a statement. In attempting to credit the WPA with that remark, Green has only dug the perpetrators of the crime in a deeper hole than they were already in.
It is public knowledge that Walter‘s car was blown up, a block away from the prison.  The line Green took at the New York meeting and restated in his letter is consistent with the “plot”. According to the survivor of the bomb blast, Smith’s instructions to Walter Rodney via Donald Rodney, was for Walter to test the walike –talkie in the vicinity of the prison fence to see how it will function in the presence of extensive metal. Again, according to Donald Rodney, Walter refused to heed those instructions and parked a block away from the prison.  Why would the WPA claim that Walter was outside the prison fence when it is public knowledge that he died a block away from the prison?
The problem with Hammy is that even today what is firmly fixed in his mind is the explanation that was worked out 33 years ago by the intellectual authors of the assassination plot when the decision was taken to get rid of Walter Rodney and the challenge he posed to Burnham’s hold on power.
Tell me Hammy was it not the intellectual authors intention that the explosion would have taken place next to the prison fence?
Tacuma Ogunseye

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