Foreign governments have a history of dividing Guyanese

Jul 19, 2020 Letters

Dear Editor,

Let’s go back to 1953 when the majority of Blacks and East Indians in Guyana supported and voted for the PPP under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan. Mr. Burnham was also one of the leaders of the PPP but Dr. Jagan was the principal leader. The PPP under Jagan and Burnham won the election by a landslide, but the United States and Great Britain felt that Dr. Jagan was a communist so they didn’t want the PPP in power. It didn’t matter to the British and the Americans that the PPP was the democratically elected government, so what did they do? Great Britain had the authority to do so, so what happened? Guyana’s constitution was suspended and the PPP were thrown out of office.

Mr. Editor, that was interference in the democratic process by the United States and Great Britain, especially in the case of the United States who had no formal authority over Guyana. What was the point of the election if you are not going to abide by the will of the people? The Guyanese people had spoken but Great Britain and the United States disregarded what the people wanted and promptly kicked the PPP out of office. The United States and Great Britain felt that of Jagan and Burnham, Burnham was the less radical of the two, so they used their political leverage to engineer a split between the two and we all know that because of that split, we ended up with a PPP still headed by Dr. Jagan, but now we had a PNC headed by Mr. Burnham. To get right down to the crux of it, we now had an East Indian PPP and an African PNC and this was directly caused by Great Britain and the United States.

Thus entered the period of racial divisiveness in Guyana that still exists up to this very day. And nothing has changed, because the interference continues and the United States and Great Britain still feel that they should be in control of political events in Guyana, even though we achieved political independence in 1966 and are quite capable of governing ourselves. We have very intelligent people in Guyana and with human intelligence, great things can happen. That’s all it takes. Guyanese people might not be very advanced in science and technology like some other countries but that doesn’t matter, we are just as intelligent as any other people. All we have to do is try to work together and get beyond the racial divisiveness that has been caused by others, who in some cases had lawful authority over us.

We have to solve this problem of racial divisiveness that has been bequeathed to us and like I said, we have the intelligence to do it and since dignity and pride means a lot to us also, we have to do it ourselves. When others do for you what you should be doing for yourself, there is no glory in such a victory. It is a watered-down victory, not the kind of victory that we can tell our children and grandchildren about. So what are we going to tell our children and grandchildren? That the Americans had to do it for us. So, Lincoln Lewis was right, GHK Lall was right, Gerald Pereira was right. Foreign entities should keep out and not try to impose their will on the Guyanese people. Let the political adversaries and our excellent court system work this thing out. Like I said before, it was the United States and Great Britain that created the mess that we are in. So, all foreign entities should stay out. Let us use our God-given intelligence that we have in abundance to solve this problem. It is a matter of national pride and dignity.

Respectfully,

Rudy Vyfhuis

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