I want to identify the October 5, 1992 General Election as my focal point from where to attempt an analysis of the violence created by the PNC thugs.
The Elections Commission comprised representatives from both government and opposition. The Chairman was an opposition nominee. After the storming and beating of some PPP/C polling agents and the stoning of the Elections Commission Office, the rigging by some 200 PNC thugs took place at the Cotton Field Primary School polling stations. Some 1,000 PPP/C supporters were alerted of this situation and they arrived by trucks, cars, minibuses, motor cycles and bicycles on the public road to help protect the building of the Elections Commission Office and the PPP/C  polling agents.
When the thugs saw this large PPP/C supporters group they quickly exited the area by minibuses and lorries. The presiding officer then asked two policemen to stand guard at our polling station door, he then locked the door and the counting of the votes began. At the end of the process we were given a signed statement of the results. I was allowed to accompany the ballot box to the Elections Commission Office building where it was stored for the final counting.
I was transported to the PPP Branch Office by comrade Heeralall Mohan with my statement of poll results. I handed over this statement to comrade Ali Baksh and the result was transmitted via a radio set to Freedom House.
Comrades at the party office were also doing their own tallying of Region 2 votes for the respective parties. Never was there so much enthusiasm and such great joy among PPP comrades at the party office throughout the processing of the results.
Inside sources revealed that the PNC thugs were planning an attack on Cotton Field before the PPP/C victory. The hostile radio station was recklessly portraying that the PNC was leading the PPP/C by some 20,000 votes. This criminal incitement led three jeep loads of PNC thugs to invade our village while our comrades were protecting the village. They jumped out of the jeeps and started beating the comrades with a wire cable and shot one of our comrades Sunil in his legs; the next day one of the thugs ‘set a fire to the Cotton Field Mandir. Our village was gripped in fear by daily PNC demonstrations before the elections. The residents displayed tremendous courage in standing firm against the crude bullyism and at the same time the police acted promptly.
The release of reports from Rudy Collins, the Elections Commission Chairman, the Commonwealth, OAS and IFES international observer groups testifying to the fairness of the polls that the PPP/C won the first free and fair election after 28 years of PNC rigged elections.