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Jun 13, 2021 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
I feel an obligation to rise in defense of the “dead” brother Ronald Waddell who is not around to defend himself since he was removed from the world of the living.
Freddie Kissoon in his June 10th, 2021 column, captioned “The world knows Indians would have been targeted if the PPP had done it” is the reason for this letter. While Kissoon is within his rights and is free to use his imagination and hypotheses on African behaviour/responses be it PPP/C rigging or otherwise, he must not be allowed to lie on the dead, a practice something he seems to have a compulsion about. I recall after the passing of Attorney-at-, Mortimer Codette, (he was my lawyer in my lawsuit against Kissoon). Freddie lied and made slanderous accusations against Codette in relation to my case. I had to respond with a letter rebuking his erroneous utterances.
I pen this letter to set the record straight in relation to Kissoon’s false accusation against Brother/Comrade Ronald Waddell. He wrote: “Then came the Buxton troubles.”
This was a violent anti-Indian project in which Indian businessmen were killed simply because they were Indians.”
The omission that follows relates to Waddell’s wife – not pertinent to what has been contested. Kissoon continues, “……Ronald Waddell told Indians on Channel 9 that they were legitimate targets.” Here we are dealing with the sensitive issue of race and violence and Freddie is allowed, unrestricted, to contaminate the nation with his poisonous propaganda.
The truth of the matter is Freddie Kissoon has deliberately taken Waddell’s remarks out of context. Waddell never said that Indians are legitimate targets for violence as Kissoon is inferring. If this were the case both Ronald Waddell and Channel 9 would have been dragged before the then government control, Guyana National Broadcasting Authority that monitored TV programmes. This was never done. Kissoon should provide evidence contradicting my position – he can’t.
Waddell’s remark was in relation of economic boycotting of Indian businesses, not targeting Indians for violence.
Yours sincerely,
Tacuma Ogunseye
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