Dear Editor
I would like to extend my sympathy to the relatives of those slain miners. This is indeed a tragic incident and not only parallels the massacres of Bartica and on the East Coast but exceeds it. What is disturbing about this latest incident is that from all indications some or all of the men were beaten with hammers and shot. Why inflict injuries with a hammer when guns were in the possession of those who perpetrated the crime? It seems obvious it was an attempt to extract some form of information. One would have to conclude, based on previous alleged incidents of the men being hunted not inflicting injuries on the persons they encountered while escaping the Joint Services cordon, that this deed was committed by a group other that the escaping criminals. Who would send ‘smoke signals’ while eluding capture from a hunt that is out to destroy you?
With the authorities adamantly denying that their law enforcement officers were involved before launching an official enquiry and the non-release of the usually super-fast ballistic results on the warheads and shells found at the scene, I am somewhat reluctant to say that this incident would remain unsolved.
The government’s announcement of hiring a forensic expert to aid in the investigation and eventual prosecution of those involved could be viewed with caution. I am sure most of your readers remembered that the organs of an alleged phantom operative were sent overseas to a lab for toxicology tests and the results were inconclusive. I’ll now predict that the results of the forensic expert will be the same – the bodies were burnt beyond recognition and although there were blunt force trauma injuries to the skulls, the cause and time of death could not be determined. Another unsolved case. But there is breaking news, one of Mr Sawh’s credit cards was found in Goat Farm.
Yours faithfully,
Joe Owen
