– Carnage in Guyana: will it ever end?

TOMORROW (Sunday 26th January, 2014) will mark six years since gunmen, armed with shotguns and AK-47s., stormed like a tsunami of death and destruction into the tiny, peaceful village of Lusignan to wreak such mayhem of blood and gore that never again will that community, and the entire nation, recover from the horror.Many of the victims were babies lying innocently asleep in their beds, who had their lives mercilessly snuffed out by monsters in the shape of humans; albeit the most monstrous of the murderers are the architects and drivers of the criminals who commit such acts, merely for political ambition and self-aggrandisement.
In the wake of the murderous rampage of that fateful night, 11 persons were left strewn askew in their own blood, never again to awake. The invasion devastated the lives of five Lusignan families, members of which witnessed the cold-blooded blasting to death of their loved ones: Clarence Thomas, 48; Vanessa Thomas, 12; Ron Thomas, 11; Mohandan Goordat, 32; Seegopaul Harilall, 10; Seegobin Harilall, 4; Dhanwajie Ramsingh, 52; Seecharran Rooplall, 56; Raywattie Ramsingh, 11;Shazam Mohammed, 22; and Shaleem Baksh, 52. Several of the children who were murdered were found dead in their beds.
Several weeks after, another carnage of senseless slaughter of the innocents was perpetrated in Bartica and subsequently at Lindo Creek.
As tribute to the victims the East Coast pandits, led by Pandits Haresh Tewari and Ravi Persaud have been holding Pitri Paksh satsanghs every year and the Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) has been hosting commemorative observances to keep alive the memories of the victims of the horrific carnage that visited Tract ‘A’ Lusignan on the peaceful night of 26th January 2008, in collaboration with the relatives of the murdered victims, residents of Lusignan and the religious community. At these events tributes are paid by relatives, officials, religious leaders and other dignitaries.
Today, most of those who executed these heinous crimes, as well as the intellectual authors, are walking free to perpetrate more crimes on the hapless and helpless Guyanese citizenry.
Also, cognisance should be taken of the fact that one of the persons who admitted to – even boasting about committing these brutal acts, the mere savagery of which left victims so mangled that post mortems could not have been performed on them – was freed in court through representation by prominent attorney Nigel Hughes, who is also Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC); and it is a matter of public record that Hughes had a long,enduring relationship with the foreman of the jury, a fact that neither ever disclosed, which should surely call for a re-trial; but justice is certainly blind in Guyana and, like many victims of successive carnages stage managed by the intellectual authors of much of the crime in Guyana, the victims will never achieve justice through Guyana’s judicial system, but will they escape divine retribution? The law of Karma?
In any just society any lawyer – perceived or actually colluding with any member of the jury – should have been subject to disbarment, but the travesty for what passes for justice in Guyana still endures; and the crafters and perpetrators of most criminal activities in Guyana continue merrily along their paths, scattering destruction, mayhem and murder in their wake; witness recent incidents at Buxton, Linden and Agricola, and the planned actions billed to be executed at Linden. Will it ever end? Certainly not while the collusion prevails and the masquerade endures, because the machinations of the Machiavellian brigade continue to take this nation on a downward path for their own political ambitions and their self-aggrandisement agendas.