More incitement

Honouring criminals
Following on the heels of APNU’s Communications Officer, Mark Archer, Morris Wilson, the Buxtonian who financed the monument in honour of “those 452 persons who had perished during the phase of the extra-judicial killings… in the early 2000s”, raked the president over the coals. For what? For calling the Jailbreak 5; the Fineman gang; Skinny Charles etc, “criminals”!!
Wilson indignantly wanted to know how those men, “could… be described as criminals, when they were not afforded their respective days in court?” Well this is how Freddie Kissoon, who we are sure Wilson considers quite ‘impartial’, described some of those inscribed on the Buxton Monument: “if there is anything readers should know about the Buxton conspiracy it is the frightening merger of criminality and politics… the incontrovertible fact, remains that a group of seasoned criminals with no scruples or remorse in raping innocent women, robbed and killed people savagely because of their ethnicity”.
The question is how could Wilson and the rest of the opposition decide they were killed “extra-judicially”? Are they now the judge and jury?  Here’s Kissoon again: “The clamour about extra-judicial killings was simply a pretext by the political supporters of the PLM and Ocean Eleven to fuel the flames of anti-police fire.”
Wilson also complained that the president shouldn’t have spoken “evil of the dead”. Really? Even when dealing with known criminals? And does one build monuments to individuals such as described by Kissoon:  “One night five youths, including “Chip Teeth”, who was recently killed in Buxton along with Romel Reman, left Buxton and went up to Mocha. While in Mocha, they said, “Let’s go and burn down some coolie gas station.” They then went to TWO BROTHERS at Eccles and tried to torch it.” But why no monument to the victims of the criminals? Kissoon describes some of these victims: “The drugged child soldiers were wild when they killed Indians. A kidnapped victim was repeatedly sodomised, and carvings were made in his flesh with two hunting knives before he died. Ginga was tortured and the post-mortem showed he was stomped upon with volcanic force. GINGA was an old man. The handicapped Haroon Rasheed screamed as he ran out the house on flames. They followed him out of the house and poured more kerosene on him.” So what should the president have called such men? Choir boys?

The political connection
But the criticism of the president and the construction of the Monument to Criminals have everything to do with the politics of Guyana. Just consider that Wilson situated the monument directly opposite the historic Buxton landmark, Tipperary Hall, which had been rebuilt by the PPP administration. The point is to keep insisting, as Mark Archer wrote against all evidence, that Ramotar “is not president of all Guyana”.
The political connection had been made very obvious at the launching of the monument back in August – timed, of course, to coincide with the Emancipation commemorations. Granger of APNU promised: “Mr Clement Rohee will be pushed out of office, not only by the motion in the National Assembly but by public opinion. If he doesn’t go, he will be pushed.”
Wilson seemed not to have heeded his present caution not to rush to judgment in the absence of court determinations: “I think that’s enough. I think the time has come to hold the PPP accountable for the brutal murders of innocent Guyanese over the period of the past two decades.”
But the height of racism was reached by Nigel Hughes, Chairman of AFC, who echoed the boycott call of Wadell: “You have to start in small measures by keeping your dollar in your own community, you have to, you must!!”

Crunch time
Patrick Yarde and his execs are back from their jaunt in South Africa and have rejected the govt’s five per cent award. With APNU, AFC and TUC already on board its street time!