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The dossier envelops the working of a malevolent philosophy of lawlessness
Dear Editor,
The Dossier is a testament to the death toll, of over four hundred citizens, men and women and children(not all who died are included) whose lives were cut short by a system of lawlessness and a callous disregard for human life and rights by above the law ‘friends’, of the leadership of the PPP after 1992.
Friends who enveloped a sinister nouveau riche that were aware of legal immunity in the pursuit of illegal gain, in a state where no morals, principles, or procedures could be collaborated between any two Ministers because no conduct was established by enforcement where the basic character of the state was intact enough to demand explanations and redress on any issue bordering on the violations of civil rights and behavioural conduct, accepted as right against wrong by the most unlearned citizen.
This was the PPP state that Jagdeo presided over and had existed before. I presented ACDA’s contribution to the Disciplined Forces COI in 2003, and contributed to the Dossier compiled and presented in 2009. Though the majority of persons executed and disappeared were Afro-Guyanese, the document did not fail to include all other Guyanese who were victims of factors that represented the criminalisation of the state. That also included the compromising of the Police Force, Judiciary, public procurement, the Tender Board, Housing and all institutions that presented services and employment were micro-managed by the PPP not as managers but as political overseers with impositions to determine the right to survive and exist, to empower those they claimed, and to marginalize who refused to confirm as pawns or exhibit any air of independence.
Race became the first assessment marker. The mismanagement of the state was enforced by repression.
First was used the PPP stacked policing groups who were responsible for several killings, and the ‘Black Clothes police’ who were above the law. It must be noted that a large percentage of these extrajudicial killings were committed before the 2002 jailbreak.
From 2000 to 2015, Guyana was plagued by youth unemployment of 40 percent cited by the CDB. By 2003, the World Bank had declared that Guyana suffering a ‘crisis’ of governance. The drug trade, backtrack and smuggling were firmly fixed.
By 2005, protest letters, ‘marijuana infiltrating secondary schools’ by Mark Nigel James BSc., Dip Ed were common;
by 2011, ‘Drugs have ravaged this 14 year old and other teens of No. 78 Village’ by Eric Khadaroo.
Contractor Gazz Sheermohamed was gunned down because he reportedly would not make his business available for money laundering. ‘Chowmein’, a mechanic [not a drug dealer or criminal] of Bar Street Albouystown, was killed along with his client whose scooter he was fixing by gunmen in a car targeting a third person [the pillion rider on the scooter] who escaped.
Two of the state gunmen came out and riddled the bodies, which were on fire from exposed gasoline (Feb 22, 2003.) Max Pereira, an architect and Malis Archer, his reputed wife, were gunned down in front of his home [Max was a leading influence in cycling; there wree reports that he was against drug dealers trying to use travelling cyclists as couriers (Oct 3, 2006]. Dorothy Williams was leaving a friend’s home when ‘State Phantom’ gunmen in pursuit of someone else wounded her. The police prevented anyone from offering her assistance. She bled to death (Nov 5, 2002.) Thus, the Dossier envelops the working of a malevolent philosophy of lawlessness and racial repression.
The best location for the Berbice Bridge was not its present location, but the best suited areas were ignored and the ferry service that served New Amsterdam was terminated to punish that town, that is not a PPP enclave.Thus, the Oct. 17 letter in Kaieteur News by Raj Lakeram, “The PPP is killing Berbice to spite the Coalition Government”.
The Dossier must be viewed as a template, but must never be presented as a conclusion onto itself.
I commend Ruel Johnson’s letter, ‘There is no spin to be placed on reign of terror under Mr. Jagdeo’s regime’ (Stabroek January 25, 2019).
I do hope this letter adds to the perspective.
Barrington Braithwaite
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