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The PPP establishment of a political secret police

Monday, 15 February 2010

By Robin Williams

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The news that the ethnocracy that masquerades as a Government in Guyana has decided to create a Guyanese Central Intelligence Agency has to be the most frightening and terrifying contemplation for African Guyanese permanently resident in that Country. After all, this is a regime that, as sworn evidence emanating from a US Criminal Court seem to indicate, was complicit in the extra judicial lynchings of hundreds of African Guyanese males, and the assassination of Journalist and Political Activist Ronald Waddell. The fact that in the face of these revelations the regime still have the hubris to create what will be in effect a secret police organization staffed by personnel of its ethnic and political selection and choice, represent a crossing of the Rubicon between a society that is marred with the usual corruption and inter ethnic strife, and one in which there is an establishment of ethnic and racial domination that parallels what was in place in apartheid South Africa. Right down to the presence of its own model of the South African Bureau of State Security B.O.S.S.

Under the former Minister of Home Affairs Ronald Gajraj, and most likely with the consent of the leadership of the ruling ethnocracy, a nefarious secret intelligence gathering agency was formed, staffed with current criminals and former criminals, drug traffickers, and former members of the disciplined services. The purpose of this agency was to locate and identify people who were to be killed. In addition, international drug trafficker and fugitive felon from US justice Roger Khan, also assembled an army of men to serve as body guards, hit men, or to perform any other function beneficial to his criminal enterprise and the political party in power in Guyana. It is not known at this time whether there was collaboration between Gajraj and Khan, given the shared interest they represented.
As the operations under these two Indian generals got underway, the mutilated corpses of black men began to turn up almost on a daily basis. The criterion for selection for such treatment, from all appearances, was the ethnicity of the victims. That is to say, they had to be black. In the meanwhile, Indians were being found with arms and ammunition and Rasta Wigs in their possession, and were being released under circumstances that can only be described as preferential. One known PPP activists called or named Chowtie, was killed by Law Enforcement while he and another were in the process of robbing an Indian family. Chowtie, who had been charged and in prison for treason under the previous regime, was released and freed immediately the PPP came into power. It is quite clear that he was acting on behalf of the party when he was arrested and prosecuted under the PNC regime, and doing the same when he was surprised by Law Enforcement and killed under the PPP regime. In the meantime every time there was a crime in which the victim was East Indian, cries went out for black blood, and Roger Khan and Ronald Gajraj enthusiastically responded.
Journalist and Political Activist Ronald Waddell, who was an outspoken critic of the ruling ethnocracy, made a statement over the Channel 9 airwaves that Africans in Guyana had to be thankful to African Freedom Fighters for their salvation. He was referring, of course, to the engagement between groups from Buxton and those connected with or providing aid to, the vigilante squads that were casually eliminating black men from the Guyanese society. Those on the PPP’s side of the division claimed he was referencing escaped criminals, some of whom had proclaimed themselves “African Freedom Fighters”. The media, civil society, and others with traditional antipathy for black people, and whose perspective was nurtured and shaped by racial inferiority/superiority complex, and negative stereotypical perceptions about black people, vociferously labeled Waddell’s comment racist. This reaction enabled the kind of ostracizing necessary to facilitate his assassination. Sworn testimony before a Brooklyn US criminal court from an accomplice of Roger Khan established that Khan planned and arranged the assassination of Ronald Waddell. Further, that testimony also, unequivocally, established that there was state participation in the assassination of Ronald Waddell through the agency of connections between Minister of Health Leslie Ramsammy and Roger Khan.
How can anyone in a minority group not be fearful and terrified over the notion that a regime that was derelict in its legal responsibilities to ensure due process and equality under the law for all of the people in a nation, regardless of race and ethnicity, is about to create a secret police agency? This is a regime that offers rewards for information only when the victims of murders come from its ethnic constituency. This is a regime in which it’s Ministerial Head of Law enforcement plays down brutal torture of members of the minority community, and offers up the paradigm that material things that come in barrels from overseas are more interesting than things like torture. This is a regime that governs on the basis of ethnic preference, encourages law enforcement abuses in minority communities, and manipulates the judicial system to show favoritism to accused that are from one ethnicity, while manifesting malice and ill-will towards another. Is this the kind of regime that can be trusted with the fair and balanced management of a secret police agency?
If the opposition does not take its case to the UN with this revelation by the Government, African Guyanese are done for. Make no mistake about it, what the PPP is about to create here is its own version of the former East German Staatssicherheitsdienst, or STASI. What the PPP seek to do is to be able to magnify the fears and terror that currently exist in the African Guyanese minority community of being kidnapped, killed or tortured by agents of the Government in the pattern that obtained during the lynching campaign. What the PPP dastardly seeks to accomplish, is the regularization of its terror squads under an agency banner that provides a semblance of legitimacy. What the opposition must do, and should never more be trusted if they do not do that, is to present the argument before the United Nations that until and unless the issues of extra judicial lynchings and political assassinations are legally resolved to the satisfaction of all interested parties, there is grounds for the fear and terror in the African Guyanese minority community. And on that basis, a petition should be put before the UN General Assembly for protection of this community in conformity with international laws and treaties. It would be an act of collective suicide for the African Guyanese community to allow a regime that completely and blatantly ignores its very basic and fundamental rights under the constitution of Guyana, to be further armed in pursuit of this agenda with a secret police agency staffed by people of its own political and ethnic choosing.

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