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The pursuit of justice is not vengeful politics, Mr Bisram
DEAR EDITOR,
In his Kaieteur News letter of 5 August 2015, Vishnu Bisram laments, “…Ten weeks after the controversial election, there is no discussion on power sharing,…there is no movement in this regard. And in fact, the two leaders seem to have lost interest in it, pursuing instead vengeful politics”.
Really? Results on a complex matter after only 10 weeks, well, well!
Mr. Bisram has already forgotten that the PPP had, 23 multiplied by 52 equal 1,196 weeks in office, to act responsibly, respectfully and decently. Mr Bisram pretends to forget that the PPP, with malice, caused Georgetown to descend into the state of a giant slum. The PPP boasted that it damaged the city, this in order to help dislodge Mayor Hamilton Green. In the process it punished 200,000 members of the civilian population, shamed the country with the disgraceful decay of the city, and demonstrated no respect for its people. The PPP cared not one jot and he Bisram, said nothing.
It was impossible for any justice to be obtained during the PPP’s rule. Ask the victims. Ask Freddie.
Bisram keeps repeating this thing about vengeful politics, but he does not say what should be done about those responsible for the abuse of power, misuse of authority, the killings, the looting of the treasury and the wanton corruption. The PPP has debased Guyana in every way and by every conceivable interpretation of that word.
Vengeful politics he now says. He has the brass!
To be frank, the law of natural justice suggests that some retribution against the PPP is entirely justified, especially on the matters of the death squads, looting of the treasury and illegal transfer of property from the state to private individuals. That retribution however, should be delivered in the full sunlight of the law, unlike the atrocities committed by the PPP, during whose rule hundreds of civilians were slaughtered, deemed guilty by the authors of the killings and the killers, without an arrest, without a defence, without a trial and a court, in the dead of the night, and in the dark, threatening, evil shadows of the Phantom.
One imagines that it is not just the business of so called vengeful politics that keeps Mr Bisram carping. It is also a desire to change the subject. He wants the stain, the crudeness, the vulgarity, the failure of nation building and the disgrace of the PPP’s misrule that goes with these things to just go away. But they will not, the injuries are too severe.
Lawfully prosecuted accountability for misrule and the pursuit of justice, Mr Bisram, is not vengeance. It is to put right and remedy the things which were done to the country and its people.
Ivor Carryl
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