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Harry Gill should also call on the PPP to apologise to Guyana
Dear Editor,
I write in response to Mr Harry Gill’s letter, “Granger has accomplished nothing for those who voted for him,” (KN-9-23-13), in which he referred to my view that the PNC should apologise to all Guyanese for its role in the Cold War in the 1960s and he declared that Brigadier Granger would never apologise.
I respect Mr Gill’s opinion; after all he had firsthand experience a few years ago when he supported Mr Winston Murray for leadership of the PNC and when his group had on its agenda an apology by the PNC for its excesses during its 28-year reign.
Then Mr Gill had not only the interest of the PNC at heart, but indeed that of all Guyanese.
Back then he thought as a Guyanese patriot who wanted to see the healing process started, he wanted national reconciliation, and he wanted national unity. Mr Gill must surely be applauded for his sincere concern for all Guyanese. However, after Mr Murray’s untimely departure from this world, Mr Gill switched allegiance to the PPP and there ended his interest in solving our ethnic security dilemma.
I say ended because since his support for the PPP, Mr Gill has not called on that party to apologise to all Guyanese for the fatal consequences of taking us into the Cold War.
Surely the PPP must take the lion’s share of the blame for the racial divisions. Were it not for the PPP’s championing of communism there would have been no 28 years of PNC rule.
And Mr Gill should know that the PPP wanted the PNC to set up a Soviet and Cuban-style state and as he would know in those countries there were no opposition parties, no elections, no private ownership, no freedom. There was dictatorship and poverty. So we should say thank God the PNC allowed us the many freedoms it did.
And speaking of freedoms, I wonder what freedom has the PPP and President Ramotar given to Mr Gill. I mean with Brigadier Granger I am free to express my views even when they differ from his.
I am free to openly criticize APNU, PNC, and the Opposition Leader, and I have done that in the recent past. I wonder if Mr Gill can openly criticize the PPP and President Ramotar. If so, I am challenging Mr Gill to publicly call on the PPP to apologise to the Guyanese people for the atrocities of the 1960s as the first step towards national reconciliation.
Malcolm Harripaul
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