Dear Editor,
As I promised, I am allowing Mr Dev, in the newspaper columns, the last word on 1964 in Buxton, although I offered to come back to 1961.
In his column of October 31 he introduced a new witness. He is rather free with the names of persons who have not introduced themselves into our argument at this time.
I have avoided assuming that liberty. Even without the name of his witness I would not deny such an incident on the railway train. It was typical along the coasts, east and west, committed by persons of each major group. It really does not harm or dispute my testimony. Mr Dev will be shocked at the incidents I have not yet mentioned.
I have reported similar aggressions by persons of my race or village in more than one book. You never catch Mr Dev doing that in relation to those from whom he sprang. To follow him it seems that some assaults were made by aliens from outer space. What an obliging Guru.
I find his point about foreign intervention in 1962 shallow. That has been over-established and over-proved. Was there any other intervention? What we have not cared to do is to get a big mirror for all of us, not some of us to look into.
Mr Dev will not suspect that individuals have called me aside at meetings to say, “Comrade, we did some bad things too in the sixties.” My point, for which I have proof, is that offences were not one-sided. The ordinary, free Guyanese everywhere knows this.
Until we, mainly of my generation, can face that mirror, there can be more and more hidden foreign intervention, and not mere intervention.
There is an agenda at work. I suspect it is connected with the next general elections.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
