An Inquiry into this period will cleanse a stench that still haunts us

Mar 07, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
There’s a tendency to embark on pointless cowardly political excursions while shrinking from that grotesque creature before us that is most significant, and has damaged, as no period before, the collective psyche of the nation. Both Forbes Burnham and Walter Rodney are significant contributors to our growth psychologically in understanding ourselves as Guyanese, and we will honour them as long as this country exists. The death of Rodney and the political accusations of Burnham’s responsibility has become a political sub-culture, and there seems an intention to milk it more. There is a current consensus to undertake an investigation into the death of Walter Rodney. This is not unnecessary, but is it currently relevant, and is it more important than the Tabled motion by the leader of the opposition for an Investigation into the 2000 to 2010 Insurrection-Crime Spree?, NO! it is not… though I think that the reasons should be obvious yet for those rooted in the modes of facades, safe props and disinformation agendas, let us examine the two areas.
By the admittance of Political leaders of the WPA vs. PNC political era, this was an era of insurrection, of warfare against the State. To be able to ascertain credible Data on Rodney’s death and prove that Burnham ordered it that will leave no doubts behind, requires a league of persons who will have to testify. Most of these people are dead; Forbes Burnham, Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, Gregory Smith, Laurie Lewis, Colonel McPherson, the incredible Patrick Alexander among others. Norman Mclean is alive , but this is going to be difficult to prove.
I stated in a previous letter that I bought some pictures of Rodney’s last moment and they did tell a compelling tale. My contention is not against an investigation into Walter Rodney’s death but rather the rejection of the PPP-Government, the AFC, even the writer Maxwell, Thurs, Jan 10, 2013 supported the AFC’s cowardice in a letter in which he surely did not understand.
To begin; the motion was tabled requesting 2000 to 2010, not 2004 to 2010, a period that embodies the PPP/ Cartel-Business community pact, which preceded 2000. And this was the foundation that fused into the most significant bloodletting to have occurred in this Colony-Country since Emancipation. This was the period when the ‘Phantoms’ Drug Cartel auxiliaries fused politically with the Police force, and Ministers, for the first time in the history of this country, endorsed organized crime, who hung the bait of millions before their tainted characters.
The investigation that should take precedence above all others is based on the January 2013 motion tabled in Parliament by the leader of the opposition for an inquiry into the criminal violence between 2000 to 2010.
The architects, secret directors political and legal benefactors are all still alive and so are the mothers whose sons were made to disappear are all alive, so are members of the Gajraj and other Phantom squads. I have coined part of that era the ‘Jagdeo-Roger Khan era’ and I am sure part of the deal testimony of both ‘Roger Khan and Captain David Clark’ would more than assist in pointing to the evidence of this dark period which has traumatized and infected a generation who now believes that hard work is pointless and that the culture of illegalities that pervades our nation is the hype, a culture that is difficult to identify, as to who are the Government and who is organized crime.
This cult of the Jagdeo- Roger Khan era now directs the national ethos. The Inquiry into this period to wherever it leads will serve as a cleansing closure of a stench that still haunts us. This inquiry by the weight of its importance in Bloodshed and national trauma should be struggled for precedence above any other inquiry.
Barrington Braithwaite

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