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Hamilton green should explain why he did not testify

Mar 10, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
I was dumbstruck to see a letter appearing in the letters column of the daily newspapers authored by none other than Hamilton Green  giving his take on the politics and death of Dr. Walter Rodney.
One can understand his distress and disillusionment at the conclusions contained in the Commission of Inquiry Report into Walter Rodney Assassination which is not flattering of his hero and mentor Forbes Burnham, but still he is the last person I expected to see coming out of the woodwork to make a pronouncement.
By Green’s own admission the hearings of this commission were protracted and went way beyond the time that was originally estimated for it to last, but yet all this time he chose not to testify or share his knowledge on the matter, which is obviously quite vast, with the Commissioners. This is in spite of the fact that the Commission encouraged people to testify, in the interest of finding out who assassinated Dr Walter Rodney, and why he died so violently, and the fact that Hamilton Green and his Deputy made a cameo appearance at the Walter Rodney CoI on June 3 2014 merely as a publicity stunt.
Of course writing a narrow letter to the press is much easier that taking the stand and being cross examined by lawyers and grilled by the Commissioners. But Hamilton Green is effectively opening a can of worms that he may be unable to close.
Everyone knows of Green’s slavish loyalty to Burnham and that he hero worships his dead leader even up to now despite the fact that Burnham made sure there were no little oaks growing in his shadow by cutting him down to size and placing Desmond Hoyte over him. While Green’s personal knowledge of times past in Guyana is recognized, he simply cannot be trusted to give an honest, unbiased account of our political history, as there is quite a bit of it that he should not be proud of.
In his letter Green asks persons to ‘Recall, that after Rodney was expelled from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, no less a person than the internationally respected Julius Nyerere analysis was that Rodney was frustrated in his efforts to climb the political ladder by words, but had opted for the route of violence.’
What Green fails to say was the Academic Board of the University of Guyana had already taken its decision to appoint Walter Rodney to the headship of the History department, when he Hamilton Green, returned to Guyana from a visit to Tanzania and began to be quoted as saying that he had learned there that Rodney had been a “security risk” and had been thrown out of Tanzania. Working on these pretences, Mr. Hamilton Green moved to have Rodney’s appointment rescinded. The appointment was rescinded on the orders of the rulers through the University Council, dominated by a large PNC team headed by Green and including the competent, professionally driven Security Officers that he refers to in his letter.
Mr. Green’s attempt to rewrite Guyana’s history will not fool right-thinking Guyanese, and he would be well advised to put his knowledge, resources and energies not into the writing of fictional history as he is known to do, but rather into a book that will contain a true history of pre and post independent Guyana on the occasion of our Jubilee year of Independence.
Shakuntala Lall

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