PART ONE: THE 2001 ELECTIONS,

PNC STREET VIOLENCE, JAGDEO & RAMOTAR SELL OUT TO BLACK THUGS 

AND.... WHAT "PEACE"?

March 19, 2001: The General Elections in Guyana which is won, for the third consecutive time, by the PPP/C.

The elections result is  questioned by the PNC. Street violence begins.

Note, the campaign slogan for the PNC was "Slow Fire" (see D. Hoyte, SN 6/21/2001). In addition, violence begins againts Indian commuters passing through Black Areas like Buxton etc. And roads are dug up to slow/stop traffic; an opportunity to rob and assault. The election result is contested in court by a PNC supporter. Street violence begins from election days itself and does not stop until early May 2001, as the Jagdeo & Ramotar comes under intense pressure from the Hoyte, PNC and House of Isreal .......to negiotate despite winning 53% of the electorate.

LOOK AND SEE HOW THE PPP 53% MAJORITY DISAPPEAR

UNDER JAGDEO & RAMOTAR .....

AND THE BLACK PNC HOUSE OF ISREAL THUGS MOVE IN

ON FREEDOM HOUSE & OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Top House of Isreal Black Thugs & PNC supporters awaiting a decision from the court.

Hoyte would call the decision from the court, after Chief Justiced dismissed the election petition brought by (PNC supporter) private citizen, Veronica Delph, "flawed and insupportable."

It only led to more violence on the streets.             

The end of elections brings the start of violence. Many buildings          were burned down in "mystery fires." An example occurred on March 21 when the home of Ms. Devika Persaud on Peter Street, Annandale, burned down, leaving her and her two daughters, Nazir, 7, and Nazeela, 11, homeless at the time.

The Ministry of Works building (see photo) and the MMA building up the East Coast were also targeted.

In the meantime, the media is filled with what Stabroek News (SN) in an editorail called "Preachers of Hate."         

Here is an extract;"Consistently advocating hatred on television for one ethnic group (PNC Black House of Isreal Thugs) on the basis that some of its members are personally biased against the other group, some are well off (the majority are not) and some indulge in discriminatory employment practices is by any reckoning an extremely dangerous practice, and is bound to lead to serious trouble. Indeed, it has in the opinion of many experienced observers already done so by contributing to the extreme hostility shown since the March election and a continuation can only make things worse." (see March 22, 2001 SN editorial)

What if, after the next election, the PPP/c is reduced to a member of the joint opposition?

AND.... WHERE IS THE "PEACE"?

LOOK HOW JAGDEO & RAMOTAR CRAB LOUSE HIDING NOW.......

THE 2001 ELECTIONS 

PNC STREET VIOLENCE,

JAGDEO & RAMOTAR SELL OUT TO BLACK THUGS 

AND.... WHAT "PEACE"?

On March 21, Mr. Haslyn Parris, a senior PNC figure, admits publicly that the result is good. He is mobbed and assaulted by Black PNC House of Isreal supporters inside PNC HQ, Congress Place, and has to be saved by Hoyte who intervened.

On March 23rd, in the height of disturbances, Franklin Thomas and Oswald Fraser, two Black PPP members are abducted and taken by Black PNC House of Isreal supporters to PNC HQ, Congress Place, where they're held captive and beaten with ticks. There is no official apology or statement on this by the PNC.

By  April, the situation sinked dangerously. On April 9, there is widespread rioting in the city. Anti PPP demonstratorts amassed before Freedom House (PPP HQ on Robb Street). Shots are fired.

There is, reportedly, a video by Mark Benschop showing a man in a long, black coat going in and out of the back door.

At the end of the shooting, a street vendor's body (Donna McKinnon) was found in a nearby empty lot. Another bystander, Mr.Amnarine Bhoda, is also shot. A bullet was logged near his spine...he survived.

The death of McKinnon incensed PNC supporters. Rickford Burke, [a close Friend and classmate of Jagabat] ..... and a former Top PNC Thug (advisor?) under Hoyte, now heading GID based in Brooklyn,NY, wrote the following in an e-mail transmitted globally; "Afro woman killed by Indian male." (E-mail dated April 9, 2001).

That night, arsonists took to he Indian-owned stores on Regent Street; some 9-12 are gutted, including A.H. & L Kissoon (photo above).   

In April 2001, two weeks after President Jagabat said he would not be intimidated by violence, he met with Mr. Hoyte.

In the end:there is Dialogue between the PPP and PNC.

 Jagdeo & Ramotar agrees to all 17 concessions made by the PNC, PNC arguing from a "position of strength"(meaning street violence).

 JAGDEO & RAMOTAR SELL OUT TO BLACK THUGS 

AND.... WHERE IS THE "PEACE"?

See Hoyte and President Jagdeo after one of their "Dialogue" meets.  More on the Dialogue       On Marginalization     On the Meaning of Dialogue

Outside of the city, especially on the East Coast,Indians became open for easy attacks from Black men and women.

For example, on April 12 at 6am, Ms. Bibi Nazmoon Khan is assualted by three individuals, includng a Black woman. They chased off her husband and stripped the woman, leaving her naked in her home. 

  On April 18th, while the funeral of Mrs. McKinnon is in process in Golden Grove, a minibus carrying passengers from the airport (a family from overseas including a 10-yr-old girl) is made to stop. The child is chopped on her thigh and a failed kidnap effort is attempted attempt.

On April 23, a bus is stopped as it passes through Buxton and channa-bombs are thrown into it. A number of people are burned; Ms. Dhanwattie Phagoo of Enmore jumped through a window, her head on fire. She is chased down the road.

Above, "Position of strength": PNC Buxton supporters on the  road.

 Below, B. Barran and D. Jagdeo, executed to provoke race war.

A group of Black radicals, determined to wrestle power from the PPP, decided that to destablaise Guyana, race conflicts were needed.          A decision was made for a set of executions.

On May 4th, early in the morning, a father (Bemchand Barran, left) and his 10-yr-old son (Mervyn Barran) from Enterprise are executed in the backdam where they went to catch shrimp.

Not far from them Mr. Dhanpaul Jagdeo (photo,right), from Non Pareil, is found. Each was executed. One policeman seemed to have taken the case personally, police detective Harry Kooseram.         

The Jagabat & De Duck monopolised the funerals,

suppressing protests from the Indian community.

The plan to ignite a race war was averted, but the pressure continued.

Left, the Barran family after the double-tragedy;  

 GIHA's Rhyaan Shah, ROAR's Ravi Dev, and the PPP-TUF's Manzoor Nadir at the funerals.

Left, PNC (Hoyte, Corbin, Trotman, etc.) leaves the National Assembly; 

right, PNC supporters protest outside parliament.

On May 28, a police vehicle is ambushed at Coldingen. One cop,Sherwin Alleyne, dies.

On June 15, 2001, the PNC walks out (photo, top) of parliament in protest of Doodnauth Singh being Attorney General.         

Then on June 21, Mr. Hoyte refuses to associate the PNC's elections slogan of "Slow Fire" with the tone of anti-government demonstrations and violence perpretrated against Indians on the East Coast, as a Stabroek News editorial ("Fire") opined. 

According to Mr. Hoyte: "The People's National Congress Reform adopted the slogan 'slow fire' during the last elections campaign. Obviously, with an intent to mislead you have misdescribed it as "slow fire/more fire", twisting the slogan...If the slogan 'slow fire' upsets you, so be it: it remains. The Party rejects the hypocrisy inherent in your claim that the slogan may possibly have 'inspired some of the fiery mayhem that the country has witnessed since March19th.'"(see Stabroek News, June 21, 2001.)

Rahamat  Ali, murdered.

CRIME PROTEST BY INDIANS

Jagdeo & Ramotar agrees to all 17 concessions made by the PNC,

LOOK HOW HOYTE, JAGDEO & RAMOTAR SELL OUT ....

AND MOVE THE BLACK THUGS TO FREEDOM HOUSE ....

AND IN OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT......

THEY CALL IT  "DE SECRET PEACE TREATY"?

On Friday last (June 29, 2001), the Commissioner of Police issued a press release which contained some outrageous and dangerous allegations. The sum total of what he said and implied was that citizens of African descent were in a conspiracy to attack and rob citizens of Indian descent, with a view to creating what he called ‘a climate of instability in the country’.
In support of his monstrous allegation, he listed eleven (11) alleged incidents of armed robbery committed during the month of April and June 2001. With respect to nine (9) of these incidents, he claimed that they had been committed by ‘afro  Guyanese men’.

 (With respect to the other two (2) incidents, he said that these were committed by masked men, leaving the inference to be drawn that these were also afro Guyanese men!) These alleged incidents, disparate though they were, he saw as evidence of a conspiracy to attack citizens of East Indian ancestry and destabilize the country.         
The Commissioner’s press release is irresponsible, unprofessional and calculated to promote racial tension, hostility and hatred. The conclusion which the Commissioner sought to draw from these selective cases reflects either a startling ignorance, bordering on stupidity or deep-seated, inveterate malice. He invoked in aid of this dangerous nonsense vague phrases like ‘intensive professional work’ and ‘several intelligence sources’. This is most unlikely since the recent British study of the Police Force revealed that it has no intelligence gathering capability. 
 

In his press release, the Commissioner reserved his most scandalous attack for ‘certain media houses’. He boldly averred that these media houses are complicit in the alleged plot to pit the Black communities against the East Indian communities in our country. 

The Commissioner’s press release constitutes a venomous libel against the entire Black community in the country. It is calculated to create a situation in which tensions, suspicions and racial hatred are likely to escalate. It has the potential for promoting racial conflict and creating the very instability the Commissioner talks about.          ...
 I believe that Mr. Lewis has been stung by mounting public criticism of his stewardship and of his unlawful clinging to office he has reached the statutory retirement age. Hence the motive in this press release, but, undoubtedly, within recent years the reputation of the Force has deteriorated badly, and certain elements in the Force,for example, the notorious Black Clothes Squad have been running amok, abducting and murdering citizens with impunity. Mr. Lewis could not be happy presiding over a Police Force which contains a section that could properly be described as Murder Incorporated...
I call on all citizens of goodwill to note the grave and dangerous ethnic terrors that could arise from the Commissioner’s gross libel on the Black Community in the country."— PNC Congress Place

Jagdeo & Ramotar agrees to all 17 Demands/Concessions

made by the PNC for De Peace Treaty,