Dear Editor,

I refer to the call by so many countries for an independent probe into the so-called phantom squad and human rights violations and torture here in Guyana as reported in your newspaper.

Editor, when I read of all these foreign governments calling for an investigation into alleged human rights violations here I muse, what nonsense!

All those governments that are calling for an investigation should first call on the Barack Obama administration to investigate the human rights violations committed against the Iraqi people by the George Bush administration; they should further call for an investigation into human rights violations committed by Israel against the Palestinians.

Whatever human rights violations took place here in Guyana is nothing compared to what Nato is doing in Afghanistan and what the British and Americans did in Iraq. Yes, our local politicians must call for a probe into human rights violations here if they feel these things did take place; it is their duty as responsible leaders, but not those who sat and watched the show in Iraq and are now doing the same in the case of Afghanistan, and who give support to Israel in its crimes against Gaza.

Yours faithfully,
WP George