Dear Editor,
It is with great shock that I read in your newspaper of Tuesday, June 4, 2008 that Mr Robert Corbin’s life had been threatened. On Thursday May 29, the Leader of the PNCR received an anonymous phone call which in essence said that if he did not desist from talking about Roger Khan he would be killed.
This is disgraceful in any democratic society like Guyana, where we should have freedom of expression. This threat to the Leader of the Opposition’s life reminds me of George Bacchus who was brutally killed for enlightening us about crime in our society a few years ago and we should not sit idly by and allow history to repeat itself. In this case there is a need for the government to act immediately to protect Mr Corbin.
I noted the opposition leader said that calls of this nature would not silence him, that he would continue to speak out on all the issues affecting the Guyanese people, including the killing of several of them between 2002 and 2004 by the phantom death squad. This has proven that Mr Corbin is a true and strong leader who loves his country and his people and wants to see that Guyana is free from organized crime, money-laundering, drug-trafficking and corruption, so that every citizen can live and work happily. I wish to commend Mr Corbin for expressing his views without fear and for standing up for what he believes is right.
Yours faithfully,
Rayvonne P Bourne
