The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has called on those who hold high public or political office to avoid usurping the police function, even in speaking impromptu, by identifying by direct words or implication the so-called perpetrators of the Lusignan massacre, or its intellectual authors or those who ‘centrally directed’ it or any community which allegedly inspired it.
Such utterances will worsen the situation, the WPA declared in a press release.
And “if we are to redeem ourselves as a nation,” the party advised, “we must do more than condemn and lament. We must find a way to honour these mothers and children, the latest in a long list of children of Guyana lost to heartless violence.”
The WPA suggested that “we can make a start on the recovery of our soul as a people by resolving to stand as one against atrocity and inhumanity everywhere: Buxton, Agricola, Lusignan.”
“We are one or we are lost,” the WPA said.
It also added its voice to the thunder of condemnation of the invasion of the “frail homes of poor working families in Lusignan” and noted that such a heinous act does not stand apart or in isolation from previous despicable acts.
The WPA pointed to this as a further sign of the deep moral and social decay of the society.