Rodney was an obstacle to PPP/PNC one-party dictatorship

Jun 12, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to PPP apologist Sultan Mohamed’s letter “Dr Roopnaraine will become the WPA fall guy,” in which his main theme was that Dr Roopnaraine will testify to the COI that the WPA was acquiring arms with which to oppose Burnham’s socialist dictatorship. Mohamed and the PPP would like Dr Roopnaraine to say that the WPA was not doing so, so that the COI cannot find any shred of justification for the murder of Walter Rodney, as the Burnhamites would like. Never mind that the lawful response from the State was to charge and prosecute Walter for arms possession or treason.
However there is another reason why the PPP would not like the WPA to say it was resorting to armed struggle, and that is to obfuscate the PPP’s complicity with the PNC during its socialist experiment. While the African-led multi-racial WPA was trying to remove Burnham’s African-led PNC from power, the Indian-led Communist PPP was supporting the PNC as shown below:
1. In mid 1970’s the Cuban Communist Party ordered the PPP to merge with PNC. Cheddi Jagan, cognizant of Indians’ cry of betrayal, instead adopted “critical support” for Burnham’s PNC. Almost all the Marxist cadres of the PPP, led by Ranji Chandisingh, defected to the PNC in 1975.
2. In 1977, when Burnham was under pressure from the WPA, the PPP proposed a National Front Government with the PNC.
3. In 1979, the PPP proposed a National Patriotic Front Government with the PNC.
4. In 1980, the PPP betrayed a group of men on the West Demerara causing the PNC to arrest and charge them.
5. In 1979, the PPP ordered its members and supporters not to cooperate with the WPA, not to attend WPA meetings, and not to march with the WPA.
Soon after Walter Rodney was assassinated on Friday 13th June 1980, the Jaganites and the Burnhamites commenced secret power-sharing talks.
PPP supporters must ask themselves why the PPP did nothing to remove Burnham’s socialist dictatorship but was, rather, bent on joining with Burnham.
PPP supporters who were always puzzled at the ease with which Burnhamites joined the PPP after 1992 should now see that the Jaganites and the Burnhamites were all feathers of the same bird, some brown, some black.
PPP supporters should also know that when Mr Desmond Hoyte took over in late 1985 he said enough of the Socialist nonsense. He did the following:
1. Scrapped the power-sharing talks between the Jaganites and the Burnhamites aimed at creating a one-party socialist state patterned after Cuba and the Soviet Union.
2. Removed the ban on flour and dhal. Removed all import restrictions. Set the economy on the free enterprise path.
3. Removed restrictions on the media.
4. Charged, prosecuted, and jailed former Burnham’s PNC henchmen including House of Israel leader Rabbi Washington.
5. Hanged the kick-down-the-door bandits who were organized and controlled by some PNC strongmen.
6. Held free and fair elections in 1992.
7. Expelled senior functionaries in his party who opposed free and fair elections.
8. Ended party paramountcy.
Since taking power in 1992 the PPP did the following:
1. Resumed party paramountcy.
2. Freed House of Israel leader Rabbi Washington.
3. Inducted Burnhamites into the cabinet.
4. Took in self-confessed House of Israel thug Joe Hamilton and made him a Parliamentary Secretary.
5. Replaced House of Israel thugs with private drug militias.
6. Made the Police Force subservient to organized crime and drug traffickers.
7. Condoned widespread police torture of poor and powerless people.
Just as Dr Walter Rodney had zero tolerance for Burnham’s PNC he would never have allowed a PPP/PNC one-party socialist dictatorship. Walter was also quickly eroding the ethnic bases of the PPP and the PNC and he was uniting the Guyanese people. United African and Indian masses would have meant the end of Jagan and Burnham’s PPP and PNC. He had to be not merely removed but be made an example of for any who dared to challenge the authors of racial polarization and dictatorship politics in Guyana. Hence the plan to blow his head off, as well as that of Dr Roopnaraine.
Sultan Mohamed may well remember the PPP’s antics in front of a well-known ROAR member’s home during the 2001 elections, a PPP organizer pointing a gun at him at Prospect, EBD, and hurling bottles and rotten eggs at him, and the killing of the father of a PPP organizer who had defected to ROAR. I am sure the Sultan remembers all this.
Malcolm Harripaul

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