The regime may feel that the sovereignty of the Guyanese people can only be violated by foreigners, but in this it is mistaken, and no one will take its cry of national sovereignty seriously if it is itself seen as a violator of the sovereignty of its own people. Make no mistake, either deliberately or by ignorance and/or default, local government is not the only area in which the political establishment has hijacked the sovereignty of the Guyanese people.
The political disturbances that occurred in the aftermath of the 1997 election were put to rest by the Herdmanston Accord,