How dare you, “Elder”, accuse ANYONE of being one-sided???

Dear Editor,
I was taken by surprise when someone called to disturb my quiet Phagwah Day to inform me that a local newspaper had a letter in its column written by Hamilton Green, who now refers to himself as “Elder”, in which he made a pitiful response to my letter.
In fact, that media house failed to publish my letter, but found it convenient to do so for this frequent and apparent favourite of its letter writers.
While the “Elder” claimed that salt is being put on the wounds of the past, he fails to say who created THOSE wounds. Does he forget how he used to be strutting around terrorising innocent Guyanese, not ONLY in the 60s, but continuing until 1992, when a “new era dawned” in Guyana.
In 1962, I was still in my formative years in school, but STILL have – and would FOREVER have – memories of that black and frightening day in Guyana’s history. I DIDN’T infer that it was “the handiwork of Burnham and D’Aguiar who were responsible for the events of that period, I posited it is a fact that the mobs rampaging the streets of Georgetown and setting fire to Indian-owned properties were following the instructions of those two.
Maybe it would save your soul if you repent for YOUR role in those events. I don’t have to use much imagination to come to a conclusion of what you were doing when you mentioned that you were there but didn’t know of the “dozens of businesses destroyed.
Yes “Elder”, since YOUR memory is better than anyone else’s, tell the nation where YOU were and what YOU were doing on that day. While you’re doing that, take a poll and find out how many persons who lived through that period would believe anything YOU say.
I’m glad it’s YOU who chose to use the word “spark” to determine YOUR party’s reaction to the PPP’s attempt at a legitimate act of governance. YOU and YOUR party should be ashamed of your unpatriotic actions, resulting in untold and unimaginable sufferings from that period, and for so many years after.
YOU seem to know a lot of a “bullet fired from a rifle, which killed a policeman. Tell us, “Elder” the serial number and make of the rifle, and WHO squeezed the trigger. Surely, YOUR memory STILL has to be that reliable.
No “Elder”, I don’t forget Sun Chapman, but as I’ve said before, I’ve heard many different stories of how that incident occurred, which I’m certain you’ve also heard, and possibly know of “first hand”, but prefer to remain selectively and conveniently mum on those.
However, you’re correct, I and I’m certain the majority of persons who were around during those times would NEVER forget “the horrors of the Wismar massacre”, YOUR WORDS.
I never suggested that one ethnic group suffered. However, I would strongly suggest that when the history of Guyana is truly recorded, the blame for those atrocities perpetrated against the Guyanese nation would be laid convincingly at the feet of the party to which you belong. History would NOT be kind to YOU and YOUR party.
Do you, in your wildest imagination, think people would EVER forget the barefaced rigging of elections that YOUR party inflicted on our nation from 1964 to 1992, and AGAIN attempted for FIVE months after March 02, 2020?
Remember, it was YOUR party’s leader who kicked you out of the party after it democratically lost the 1992 elections, and YOUR attempts to continue to hold on to the Government.
Do you think Guyanese would forget how you moved on to splatter your stink on the city of Georgetown? And now have the audacity, most likely bolstered by the unjustifiable pension you were bequeathed, to accuse others of being one-sided?
NO, “Elder”, THAT is NOT ‘ONESIDED HISTORY”.
NO, “Elder”, YOUR brand of promotion of “Peace, Not Conflict” would NEVER be acceptable to the majority of Guyanese, since it is riddled with any semblance of integrity, riddled with insincerity, dishonesty and falsification of history.
Maybe you should consider adding an appropriate adjective before “Elder”. If you agree, I can offer you a few to choose from.

Regards,
Harry Narine Nawbatt