Dear Editor,
In a letter published in SN of September 17 titled ‘Kirton did not get it wrong‘ by Carl Cheong the only valid conclusion possible (as a graduate in the field of politics and international relations), is that both Mr Wesley Kirton and Mr Cheong are not only wrong but living on a different world. Stealing votes can never be right even if no courts have declared it wrong. How many people have gained their freedom through the courts when we all know they were guilty?
This reliance on the courts as a thermometer of justice to which both gentlemen seem to be shackled, can be a double-edged sword. No court has so far ruled that the PPP/C government is corrupt or unfair in Linden. When the PNC apologizes and makes restitution for its miserable rule it would mark a turning point in our history. The GDF’s transportation of stolen votes and ballot boxes, resulting in Berbicians Mr Bholanath Ramassar and Mr Jagan Parmanand being shot dead cannot be a figment of imagination or a big joke, any more than a suggestion that Dr Walter Rodney and others were not against election rigging and died for nothing. It would be of immense pleasure to hear from both Mr Moses Nagamotoo and Mr Khemraj Ramjattan that they now believe that the PNC never rigged elections. Or that every person in the WPA who fought against Burnham’s PNC does not believe the PNC ever rigged elections.
Where is the evidence to debunk the facts that the PNC was not the architect and beneficiary of all election rigging? Both gentlemen cannot forget that the PNC had an effective stranglehold on Guyana’s court with the PNC’s flag blatantly hoisted over the Guyana Court of Appeal.
With the PPP parading its socialist policies in the face of America it was no wonder America was prepared to allow all these anti-democratic transgressions. A PNC government in the service of America doing its bidding was in perfect harmony with both completely being happy. If the PNC gained legality because it was not condemned inside the UN, it was certainly condemned outside the same UN. I was there protesting regularly with many including Mr Bisram, Dr B Ramharack, CPG and many others.
And even if it is true that China gained UN membership by majority votes it was nevertheless done with the blessings of the West as a counter balance against the Soviet Union. Note how the US economic blockade of the communist ruled Cuban island made many Cuban exiles in
Miami’s cheerful. Were both these gentlemen not also deeply saddened when a member of these same Miami based Cubans bombed a Cuban airliner and sent many Guyanese to watery graves in the Caribbean? Obviously the US was not validating Chinese communism as legal and Cuban communism as illegal. Messrs Cheong and Kirton (our Republican hero) know the truth that the PNC rigged elections but are only involved in a little fancy footwork to obfuscate history.
It is all fantasy that since no court, nor the United Nations nor any commission accumulated any evidence that conclusively explains and satisfies the PNC’s exoneration from election rigging. Memories of the PNC’s illegal rule still resonate and provoke strong negative reactions. Only the PNC can change that. People like me will always continue to speak the truth regardless of the courts.
Yours faithfully,
Vassan Ramracha