Dear Editor,
Have your ever wondered why the PNC was so successful with their rigging? Well, you don’t have to go too far an answer, that rigging formula was kept alive and well with intense violence and aggressive political maneuverings of the PNC. We are all too familiar with the violent street protests around elections here in Guyana, Burnham used it, gaining handsome results, and this same strategy was carried out by every leader or successor of that party.
They claim that this is the only language The PPP understands, so sound the dog whistle and set the mob in action. These were the rallying words heralded to an idiotic and bloodthirsty audience. At every election there was this climate of fear and foreboding that violence would erupt at any time, where persons and businesses of Indians were strategically targeted. Moderate and conscientious Black objectors also felt the wrath of their onslaught, calling them names such as house slaves and “Banna you ain’t a Black Man.”
Guyanese remember the “slo fiah moh fire” call issued by Hoyte when he lost The 1997 Elections, for two long years Indian Businesses went up in smoke, others were looted and the owners beaten, or killed. Georgetown, A PNC Stronghold was the epicenter for such atrocities, the Incendiary device of choice, was the infamous “Channa Bombs.” This was the period when The PNC reveled in their destabilizing and divisive political strategies.
The disgraceful thing to note, is that they would calmly say they do not know who the insurrectionists are, or dismiss the atrocities as destructive acts of overzealous nonentities, yet, when those individuals were caught, that same party defended them to the hilt. They would deny any involvement with them, although the ghoulish and demonic acts bore the signature trademark of that party, as well as the intellectual authors behind it.
Hoyte then turn to The Police who were standing in the way of them fulfilling their atrocious goals, he referred to the forces in terms of endearment, calling them his “Kith and Kin,” the clear understanding that law enforcement must stay out of the way of the rioters, giving them free space to commit those atrocious acts.
That did not quite get the results Hoyte bargained for, because law enforcement still kept a close watch on the thugs and prevented a civil war. So, an open call was made to destabilize the country, Hoyte said and I quote, “I will make this country ungovernable,” meaning he would launch an all-out attack on law enforcement itself.
As a result, twenty-six policemen died as Hoyte’s PNC’s Freedom Fighters went on a rampage. That first wave of killings started with the notorious thug Douglas (He was a Seventh Day Adventist, turn Freedom Fighter) in another article I will deal with that religio-political aspect of PNC’s Dogmas. Thus, the introduction of the slang “Kill d Police was heard. Fineman and his notorious gang continued the violent assault, leading up to The Lusignan and Bartica Massacres. Those gunmen founded a safe haven in Buxton as the war drums were riled up.
I must take brevity into account and hasten to a close, now, those mass killings and wanton destruction of property are all associated with that party, something every Guyanese know too well, and we are not going to allow our country to go through that trauma again, ever. We say down with violence, down with any party that promotes criminal activities to get an unfair advantage in this country. We will not be held captive by violent acts. We will ensure that Guyana enter into a period of free and fair elections and elections that are free from fear. I rest my case.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams
