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A meddlesome ambassador

Jul 02, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
We are facing an interesting situation with the TIP report published by the US State Department insisting, despite contradictions by the Guyana Government, that its report is accurate.
I think the statement made by the departing US Ambassador Hardt that although the State Department did not get all the information he would have wished, the report is accurate and adequately expresses his thorough ignorance of what is right.
How can one come to a conclusion when all the facts are not known? Ambassador Hardt should hang his head in shame when what he has said betrays his callous disrespect for the rule of law and seeks for no proper reason to accuse an independent state —Guyana — of wrongdoing.
His principal complaint is that although persons have been convicted by the Courts but granted bail pending their appeals, the Government should put systems in place so that the convicted persons are held accountable.
He is of opinion that persons convicted of an offence should not be set free. He assumes the position of an interloper in a host country to find fault with our legal system that guarantees to each person the right to challenge his conviction if he believes he was wrongly convicted.
Hardt’s President in the USA is a trained lawyer, we are told, and we would wish to get a comment from Mr Obama concerning the rights to which Hardt is objecting.
Mr Hardt should be aware of the fact that Guyana has neither a Guantanamo prison nor water boarding — holding persons without accusing them of any offence but humiliate and torture them. The Ambassador should be told to bug off and stop meddling in our internal affairs.
Vernon Mentore

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