Georgetown: The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), the Guyana Islamic Trust on behalf of the Muslim community of Guyana and President of the Guyana Solidarity Movement with Cuba were part of a peaceful protest in condemnation of war crimes that are being carried out against the civilian population in Palestine by Israel. The recent protest began outside the Umana Yana, Kingston, Georgetown.
President of the Guyana Solidarity Movement with Cuba, Halim Khan, strongly condemned the indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza which has resulted in the killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinians including women and children, and the injury and maiming of thousands more.
Khan explained that “We call for an enforcement of the BDS (boycott, divestment & sanction) campaign by the international community, for stronger coercive diplomacy, and stronger humanitarian intervention…“We especially call upon the United States of America to take a stronger and fairer position in the conflict, since it perhaps has, due to its special relationship with the State of Israel, the greatest influence over the occupying State, and therefore has a greater power and ability to bring about a just resolution to the world's longest conflict and occupation.”
He further explained that the situation is very shocking. Children have been bombed while playing in a football field on what was supposed to be the most festive day of their year, the day of Eid ul Fitr.
According to the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) President, Fazeel Ferouz, Palestine and its people have witnessed over 65 years of complete dispossession, 45 years of brutal occupation, 20 years of failed peace negotiations, and a seven-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip. Since 2000, an estimated 12,000 Palestinians have been killed at the hands of Israel and countless others injured and maimed.
Representatives of the Guyana Islamic Trust called on the United Nations, the United States of America, the European Union and other world bodies to use all means at their disposal, diplomatic and otherwise, to immediately stop the massacre and bring an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The world community must earnestly work for a just solution to the long outstanding problem of the Occupation of Palestine, the group said.
Sheik Masood said, “We hope that this gathering is perceived by the international community and responsible bodies as a cry for help on behalf of our suffering brothers and sisters in humanity, and that it is registered in the record of time as a collective voice of condemnation of the killing of innocents, for in silence aggressors find great strength.”
Waving of the Palestinian Flags and chanting “Free Palestine”, “Stop the Killing”, “Stop the US Aid to Israel now”, and “Freedom to Palestine”, and other chants, the protest comprising men, women and children, made its way onto Young Street, Kingston, passing by the Canadian and US Embassies, then to the Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.
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