Elections flashback… Fight for freedom

THE year of 1964 was a year of increasing violence, culminating in the uncontrollable murders, rapes and burning of buildings at Wismar, with the British Police Commissioner being responsible for lack of protection to the hundreds of Indo-Guyanese in that area who had to evacuate en mass to survive. Altogether in 1964 some 2,668 families involving approximately 15,000 persons were forced to move; there were over 100 murders resulting from widespread bombings and burnings. It was an even more difficult year for the then Premier Dr. Cheddi Jagan.
Dr. Jagan with the assistance of President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana was seeking a political settlement. However, the proposals put by Dr. Nkrumah’s mission to the country were rejected by the PNC. Thus all efforts failed.
Pictured is a massive group of Guyanese who marched for freedom in 1964.

 

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