When demented thoughts turned drug-related murder into political savagery
Kaieteur News – I repeat the following words I wrote in my column, “Afro-Guyanese in 2020: Bonfires of deceit,” on Tuesday, January 5, 2020, “The greatest irony in philosophy is that something wrong can also be logical . ”
Trump leaders in the US, PNC and AFC in Guyana were wrong to discourage people. However, there is actually objective logic that makes you understand why they did it even though you will pronounce what they did wrong when you understand the logic.
Powerholders like Trump, Granger, etc., don’t want to lose power. Situations where power can be retained will be shaped and twisted to suit the desire of the people who want to retain power at all costs. It was clear to any honest mind that it was extremely stupid for Indian people to murder two African youths in a wild victory after Dr. Ali becomes president. They won their party. There is no fatigue. Why therefore kill your detractors rather than celebrate the victory?
The PNC, the AFC and their racist deputies are giving a political twist to the homicides of Henry’s two cousins for the purpose of creating national chaos so that it can generate international pressure over power sharing. That was wrong, implausible, immoral, ugly and rude but it was logical in the context of realpolitik. Leaders create wars in order to generate domestic confusion to remain in power. Trump may even start a war with Iran to divert attention away from his current problems.
What was wrong and illogical is how some civil society organizations fed the PNC and AFC immorality by strengthening the dangerous, evil and violent racial demagoguery over the murder of Henry’s cousins. Here is what I wrote about the murders in a column titled “Claudette Singh: The 2020 Election and the Disturbance of Region Five” as early as Sunday, September 13, 2020 – “Was it a random murder that the PNC joined in to create and war race to ensure it has a place in the post-violence settlement? Some theories making the rounds are that there could have been unlimited revenge from drug people with whom the cousins were falling out. Another theory is that it is a device used by political opportunists in the PNC and AFC leadership as the start of a protracted war of “mo fyaah, slo fyaah.”
The strongest theory making the rounds in September last year, was that Henry’s boys were killed in a drug war. The area was a haven of marijuana treatments, which police had robbed and burned some farms weeks before Henry’s cousins were killed.
And yet from September until exactly this month, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), civil society groups like those hypocritical women’s organizations retained the violent vocabulary and motive to get around the race factor in the murder. It’s as if they want that to be the answer so that it can fit into their anti-PPP agenda.
You can hate the PPP if you want. You can knock your head on a wall in disgust for the PPP to win the March election but Guyana is not the PPP. Your country is bigger than the PPP. Election rigging was not about the PPP. It was about saving Guyana. Looking objectively for Henry’s murders was not about the PPP. It was about saving Guyana from an ethnic explosion.
My problem in this country is how groups and individuals whose narrative can lead to the disintegration of Guyana are allowed to be accepted into the mainstream of society, when their actions are so damaging. The GHRA became a deputy to the PNC and the AFC in framing the conversation about ethnically motivated Henry murders.
A mainstream newspaper provided a huge space among its pages dedicated to what this organization was encouraging in relation to Henry’s murders. How do you explain this sociological and journalistic aberration in modern society, especially in light of how wild speeches in the US undermined American democracy?
Many innocent Indians were beaten and badly robbed because these civil society organizations sponsored the violent, racist rhetoric of David Granger and Joe Harmon when the two men went to Region Five in September last year urging their constituencies to create physical harm to innocent Guyanese. Kit Nascimento highlighted what happened to a 16-year-old girl and her grandmother (see my column on Monday, September 21, 2020, “A helpless 16-year-old girl, her grandmother and three LGBT victims.”) The GHRA, the these hypocritical women are groups, and others are enemies of democracy. Young Guyanese should hold them accountable. But this will never happen because this is silly Guyana.
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper.)