GDF ranks interviewed by Lindo Creek CoI

Over 10 years ago, a high-profile Joint Services team was deployed to the Lindo Creek area to hunt the members of the Rondell “Fine Man” Rawlins gang and on Wednesday five of its members were privately interviewed by retired Justice

Commissioner, Lindo Creek CoI, retired Justice Donald Trotman

Donald Trotman who chairs the Commission of Inquiry into the June 2008 Lindo Creek massacre.
Lieutenants Lloyd Souvineer, Sheldon Howell, Omar Khan and the retired Army Officer Fitzroy Warde appeared before Justice Trotman for the interview, which will determine whether they will have to reappear to provide public testimony.
The men were being sought by the CoI and have since been made available by the Guyana Defence Force after they received a correspondence letter and public notices were published in the daily newspapers.
The CoI is still seeking the presence of former GDF Lieutenant Ayodele Woolford, former Superintendent Dwand Cambridge, Private Taylor, Private Quailo, and Philbert Bobb.
Sometime between June 12, 2008, and June 24, 2008, miners Cecil Arokium, Dax Arokium, Compton Speirs, Horace Drakes, Clifton Wong, Lancelot Lee, Bonny Harry and Nigel Torres were shot and killed, and their bodies burnt at the Upper Berbice River mining camp, which was being operated by Leonard Arokium.
The Lindo Creek CoI is the first of what the coalition Government has said would be a series of inquiries into the hundreds of killings, which occurred during a crime wave that began in 2002. The CoI was established to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the killings of eight miners and to report its findings and recommendations to President David Granger.