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Originally Posted by Nehru:

Eight years since he was cut down by Fineman and his Gang that was supported and condoned at Buxton by Williams and others

Ow Nehru, yu stick in yu lil bit here.  I leave you to the vultures.

 

Let me see how you stand up today to them.

 

Be a man and bring out your points.

 

I am watching.

FM
Originally Posted by KishanB:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Eight years since he was cut down by Fineman and his Gang that was supported and condoned at Buxton by Williams and others

Ow Nehru, yu stick in yu lil bit here.  I leave you to the vultures.

 

Let me see how you stand up today to them.

 

Be a man and bring out your points.

 

I am watching.

Yea leh we see he point.

FM
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Eight years since he was cut down by Fineman and his Gang that was supported and condoned at Buxton by Williams and others

Bhaiji, Cecil Simeon Ramcharran was fin

 

 

 

WAs he a member of Fineman Gang?

 

Mr Nehru read about Cecil Simeon Ramcharran

 

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....brought-to-the-city/

 

Mr Nehru stop embarrassing your self.  

FM
Originally Posted by JB:
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Eight years since he was cut down by Fineman and his Gang that was supported and condoned at Buxton by Williams and others

Bhaiji, Cecil Simeon Ramcharran was fin

 

 

 

WAs he a member of Fineman Gang?

 

Mr Nehru read about Cecil Simeon Ramcharran

 

http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....brought-to-the-city/

 

Mr Nehru stop embaGal laka yuh know who deh killer is, well tell Abee nah

Nehru
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Eight years since he was cut down by Fineman and his Gang that was supported and condoned at Buxton by Williams and others

Bhaiji, Cecil Simeon Ramcharran was fin

 

 

 

WAs he a member of Fineman Gang?

 

It was alleged.

 

After killing Ramcharran and Chung, the Joint Services recovered two AK-47 assault rifles, 781 AK-47 rounds, nine AK 47 magazines, ten 16-gauge cartridges, and eight 12-gauge cartridges.
In addition, the ranks recovered a quantity of foodstuff, a variety of clothing, cellular phones, documents, basic medical supplies, and other articles, including one Republic Bank Visa Card in the name of Satyadeow Sawh, one Canadian Bank Gold Card in the name of Sawh, one BeeWee Miles Card in the name of Satyadeow Sawh, one kerosene stove and cooking utensils, 11 GT&T cell phone chips, three Digicel cell phone chips, three cellular phones, two torchlights, one pocket radio, one Koran, one New Testament and one Bible.

Mitwah

Roger Khan: The elephant in the room

January 24, 2012Leave a comment
 

By STABROEK STAFF  |  EDITORIAL | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012

As President Ramotar settles into his mandate and comes to grips with his agenda for the year and beyond, nothing will test his freedom of action and sincerity in reforming the security sector like the question of a full investigation into the rampage here of convicted drug lord Roger Khan and whether his activities ensnared senior members of the last two administrations or at worse criminalized them.

It is the proverbial elephant in the room. No other issue can hold a candle to it. Every other security matter will be a jigsaw missing its biggest piece without a true accounting for the Khan penetration of the security apparatus, his run-amok phantom squad and the ease with which he trafficked in cocaine. In his previous roles as PPP General Secretary and as presidential hopeful, like many others high up in the PPP/C and the government, Mr Ramotar did not grapple with the seriousness of the problem. His position then was quite likely in conformity with the stance of former President Jagdeo.  Mr Ramotar is now, however, the person in the seat of the presidency and he now has to answer as President.

Whenever they get their act together, the parliamentary opposition will no doubt press the issue of the Khan inquiry and whether this entails a full-blown investigation of all of the violence and carnage of 2002-2008. The parties aside, there would be few independent-minded people in this country who would be opposed to a full-fledged Commission of Enquiry into the Khan reign of terror and drugs. This enquiry must be done for all the people of this country, particularly those who were directly affected by the terror and lost loved ones to the actions of this man who now sits in a US jail instead of having been subjected to the full extent of the law here and possible incarceration at Lot 12 Camp Street. The enquiry must not be seen as a trade-off between the parties or haggled into a reductive undertaking as was the case of the hearing into the allegations against former minister Gajraj.

Indeed, President Ramotar is in pole position to stake out the high ground. He can declare his intention to investigate the Khan period and enable a commission of enquiry with full powers. There may be challenges within his party and administration to it but it would be the right and appropriate thing to do. It is also worthy of note that Minister Ramsammy whose name was mentioned in a US court in relation to the permission for the purchase of spy equipment for Khan’s use has been retained in the Cabinet.

Despite the absence of a criminal investigation here into the many crimes that Khan was alleged to have committed, the disclosures in several cases in New York coupled with the revelations contained in the WikiLeaks cables place beyond any doubt that Khan was allowed to conduct his affairs here without fear of prosecution because of his connections. Where government officials are alleged to have been caught up in these matters the Rubicon has been crossed and the pathway to law and order and just governance has to be swiftly retraced.

Whether the government proceeds with foreign-funded reform of the police force which was so perversely obstructed by senior government members in the Jagdeo administration will not matter much if the nub of the Khan reign isn’t unlocked, understood and extensive walls built to defend against a recurrence.

Ultimately Khan is the one who is answerable. He has thrown in the towel and pleaded guilty. Surely he may now be in the frame of mind where he recognizes the futility of denying his role in the cocaine-spiked bloodshed here. He faces the prospect of being returned here upon the completion of his sentence in the US.  He must certainly be aware that he would be a person of enormous interest in any number of murder investigations in connection with which his name has been called but for which there was never any prosecution. He might be prepared to make a clean breast of it and perhaps provide testimony to the Commission of Enquiry. On a state to state basis the Ramotar administration should be prepared to approach Washington on the prospect of having access to Mr Khan in his cell. This as we have said before is a matter that is perfectly in the domain of the President.  There need not be any acrimonious parting of ways with the opposition over this matter.

Mr Khan fled here as a fugitive from American justice in 1993 – months after the PPP/C came to power – and at the time of his arrest in June 2006 he had taken over Kaow Island, owned and operated several businesses, had a private army and had been on the verge of securing a forestry lease in the south of Guyana undoubtedly for the continuation of his nefarious business. The collapse of that deal has raised questions about his possible involvement in the killing of Minister Satyadeow Sawh. All of this transpired under thirteen uninterrupted years of PPP/C governance and it is the PPP/C that has to enable its own conduct to be examined. Khan’s free reign was clearly a product of the compromised and broken security sector which the PPP/C never bothered too much about as control of the apparatus was its prime consideration.  This commission of enquiry would be not so much about Khan’s mastery of the degraded security apparatus but as to whether government officials or the government knowingly facilitated his ascendancy for whatever reason. This is what President Ramotar’s government needs to get to the bottom of before it can embark on the much needed reforms to the security sector.

 

 

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...lephant-in-the-room/

Mars

Brother-in-law convinced Sawh murders will be solved

 

Will the execution of former Agriculture Minister Satyadeow Sawh and the sudden death of murder accused David Leander called `Biscuit’ ever be solved?

Sawh’s brother-in-law Bob Persaud who has since sought the assistance of the Canadian government believes that despite “all the cover ups” the truth will come to light some day.

Satyadeow Sawh

Persaud, during a recent interview with Stabroek News from his home in Canada, expressed confidence that he will get a positive response from his government in accessing self-confessed drug lord Roger Khan, who he believes has vital information about the killings.

“The Canadian government is still looking at the situation. They got to go through the red tape with the Americansâ€Ķ I foresee that very soon I will have a positive word from them,” said Persaud, who lost his wife Phulmattie and brother-in-law Rajpat Sawh in the blitz that took the life of the former Agriculture Minister.

A still grief-stricken Persaud explained to this newspaper that Parliament recently convened after a long break and that may be the reason behind the delay in the response to his request.

He had approached his government earlier this year after the Guyana government’s failure to honour a promise to seek foreign aid to solve the murders.
“I am not going to give up. I will continue to fight because my lawyers [in Guyana] have advised that the lawsuit against the Guyana government will take between five to ten years to come up in court,” he added. He has filed a lawsuit against the Guyana government for failing to protect a minister; it is pending.
According to Persaud, he is prepared to wait for the truth since he is confident that one day all the pieces of the puzzle will fall into place.
“The truth will come out sooner or later. When people cover up and lie, the truth always comes out,” he insisted.

He said that no real attempt has been made to find out who paid the killers before adding, “they probably know who did it or [who] are somehow involved but I know that some day the truth will come out.”

Persaud informed Stabroek News that he is contemplating putting up a reward for any information that could lead to a breakthrough in the case, particularly the capture of the mastermind.

He then stressed that his brother-in-law’s main objective was to serve the Guya-nese people and nothing else.

Around 12.15 am on April 22, 2006 seven masked gunmen dressed in military fatigues invaded the minister’s LBI home and riddled him, his two siblings and his security guard Curtis Robertson with bullets. Reports were that the minister’s wife Sattie and his brother Omprakash were in the kitchen when they saw a masked gunman looking at them through a window. Sattie had said that she alerted the minister who was in his hammock on the veranda, but before he could escape to safety, he was riddled with shots. He collapsed just inside his front door.

David Leander

Sawh’s brother Omprakash hid his sister Phulmattie Persaud underneath a bed, but the gunmen found her and after dragging her out shot her in the face.
The gunmen then turned their weapons on the minister again and at the same time placed Omprakash on top of Rajpat to execute them both. Omprakash said he begged the men for his sister’s life and gave them $23,000, a digital camera and a watch. He said he and his brother were praying for their lives, but before the gunmen left they fired another shot at them killing Rajpat. Robertson was shot outside the home and he also died.

Omprakash Sawh, 53, another brother of the minister who resides overseas, and security guards Albert Mangra and Aga Khan were also injured.
The minister’s wife and children have returned to Canada where they lived prior to 1992 when Sawh was called home to be part of the PPP/C government.

‘Biscuit’

More than a year has passed since David Leander also called David Zammett and ‘Biscuit,’ who was accus-ed of murdering the minister and his siblings, died from suspected poisoning. To date there has been no word on the results of samples sent to a Trinidadian lab for toxicology testing, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said last week.
The Crime Chief also said that there have been no new developments in the investigation into the 2006 execution.

Bob Persaud, commenting on the Leander situation said: “As I said before, dead men tell no talesâ€Ķ Biscuit was killed to cover up the truth. They will forge the toxicology test, we wouldn’t get the truth. The government is in control of everything and we may never get justice,” he added.

The Crime Chief had said earlier this year that the samples were sent to the island some time after Leander died, but could not give an estimated date. He had said too that local investigators were in contact with their counterparts in Trinidad in relation to this matter and others and indicated that until the results are received the investigation into Leander’s mysterious death could not progress.

A close relative of the dead murder accused had indicated to this newspaper that police did not care that he was dead, before stressing that a woman who suddenly started taking food to the Georgetown Prison had poisoned Leander.

The relative had said too that it was strange that he could have died of a mysterious illness, just as the case was coming to an end in his favour. Days before he took ill, Magistrate Yohanseh Cave ruled an oral statement purportedly made by the murder accused inadmissible after a voir dire (trial within a trial) had been conducted.

Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles who was also charged with the killings is also dead. He had managed to escape from the lockups at the Sparendaam Police Station and was later shot dead along with alleged gang leader Rondell ‘Fineman’ Rawlins.

Troy Dick and close to a dozen others had also been implicated in the killings.
Senior police officials have repeatedly insisted that the investigation is still open and that the remaining suspects are still being sought.
Police had offered a $2 million reward for the capture of Leander, Charles, Rawlins, Orlando Andrews called ‘Bullet’ or ‘Jeffrey’ of Buxton, ‘Cash’ of Buxton; ‘Not Nice’ of Buxton and ‘Sonny’ of Agricola.

Why?
Persaud said he is still puzzled as to why Sawh was targeted, adding that there have been many rumours.
He said that what has made things more difficult was that several of those implicated have been killed and the others wanted for questioning have disappeared.
Persaud insisted that the gunmen who invaded the house that morning were hired guns and their sole aim was to kill the minister.
The man added that he is stunned at the opposition’s silence on the issue particularly given the fact that a minister was killed.
“The government knows more that they are tellingâ€Ķ This was an organised killing,” he said.

He added that he has his suspicions as to what may have led to the murder and hopes that one day the motive behind the killings will be revealed.

 

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...ders-will-be-solved/

Mars

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