Georgetown: The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) welcomes the call by a number of personalities and organizations as well as the Rodney family for the extension of the life of the Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Dr. Walter Rodney.
The call was made in the wake of the stubborn refusal by government to extend the life of the COI and to shut it down all of a sudden.
According to the PPP “The strident and combative statements by Granger, Harmon and Trotman in favour of terminating the work of the Commission flies in the face of all reasonable and decent-minded Guyanese.
From the very onset the APNU+AFC never wanted this Commission of Inquiry. Vociferous objections to its establishment was a clear signal where they stood in the matter. As far as they were concerned, the COI was an attempt by the PPP government to unmask the PNC and to cast them in the role of the perpetrators and architects of the assassination of Dr. Rodney.”
“The government may shut down the COI but they cannot shut down nor shut out history.
It is sickening to read where individuals such as David Hinds would shamelessly quote Walter Rodney when they didn’t have the guts nor the testicular perspicacity to appear before the Commission of Inquiry. Rupert Roopnarine and Clive Thomas are to be condemned in a similar manner. There are others of a similar ilk who should have appeared before the COI but their names are too distasteful to be mentioned. These particular individuals prefer to approbate and reprobate through the pages of daily newspapers and would join any picket line on anything; anywhere, anytime but when it comes to appearing before the COI they are cowards and behave as if they belong to the subaltern world.”
“So that when David Hinds writes on behalf of the Cuffy 250; “The African Guyanese are worst off than it was in 1838” in one of his Hindsight’s stating that; “There is no bigger sinner against the Blackman since immigration than the Blackman himself.” “He and his colleagues including Clive Thomas should look at themselves in the mirror and ponder deeply on these words in the context of their disservice to the Rodney COI. Incidentally, Hinds in a most derogatory statement sought to paint the Black Comrades in the PPP in racist colours when he wrote that “Blacks in the PPP behave more Indian than the Indian” a profound racist statement indeed. Hinds should have gone on to describe how Indians in the PNC behave but he chose not to go there because he knows that Indians in the PNC are usually bitter and vengeful unlike an Afro-Guyanese in the PPP, some even go so far as despising themselves for being Indian and not Black and that explains why they try their utmost to prove to their newly found Afro-Guyanese colleagues how faithful and committed they can be by being even more spiteful and vengeful towards the PPP and its supporters in an effort to come to grips with the insecurity and distrust in a party where they are in the minority.”
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