The flaws of our past leaders

Jul 04, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Funerals have a way of exposing the good deeds of the dead. For that moment even the enemies of the dead would refrain from saying anything negative about the dead. Bygones are gone with the dead and people tend to remember only the good things about the dead. Maybe that is the reason why people continue to idolize two of our longest serving leaders – Jagan and Burnham. The Burnham and Jagan squabbles still occasionally occur amongst older folks in bars around the country. Who was the better man is often debated.
I see and hear leaders in the coalition paying great homage to LFS Burnham; exemplifying him as great leader, visionary leader etc. Everyone seems to see the world through different lenses. When Castro died recently many people applauded him as a champion among men. Opposition activists say that while Chavez and Castro may have set out with good intentions to fight the regions deep economic inequalities and elite politicians, they both turned into tyrants. Some may see it differently but I would like to put LFS Burnham in that category too.
Life is short and I have no problem with ordinary humans wanting to remember only the good things about their fellow humans after their death. What I find hard to condone are people whom society considers as intellectuals pontificating about a dead leader, expounding only the good they saw in them; when that said leader had touched so many people in a negative way. Albeit some of the PPP/C leaders are trying to compare themselves to Cheddi Jagan as if Cheddi Jagan was flawless. In my opinion Cheddi Jagan is responsible for all the sins that befall this country.
Rudolph Singh

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