OLD Kai was very critical of David Granger and his entourage when they visited East Berbice on March 8, 2014 and attempted to talk down to citizens there and insinuate that they were not committed to ‘national unity and racial reconciliation.’These were the very people he had referred to as ‘gangsters’ in a revisionist book he wrote, trying to whitewash the atrocities of the PNC dictatorship he was so closely affiliated with. And what was the crime of the ‘gangsters’ in Berbice you may ask?
These people were very unreasonable in Granger’s mind for they had the gumption to ask for ‘free and fair elections.’

QUOTE: The CIA’s declassified documents would later expose the deceitful writings of Granger as the cables detailed the plots by Burnham and his associates to rig the elections and use violence to suppress the majority of citizens. To add insult to injury, David Granger would then have the gall to turn this around and blame the innocent and label those fighting for democracy as ‘gangsters.’

These simple villagers would dare stand up to the guns of the PNC regime and ask that their ‘votes be counted at the place of poll’ rather than the dictatorship using their ‘boys’ in the Army (Granger was a ‘big-bai’ in the GDF at the time) to whisk away the ballot boxes from polling stations to secret locations to have the PPP votes magically replaced with votes in support of the PNC.
The CIA’s declassified documents would later expose the deceitful writings of Granger as the cables detailed the plots by Burnham and his associates to rig the elections and use violence to suppress the majority of citizens. To add insult to injury, David Granger would then have the gall to turn this around and blame the innocent and label those fighting for democracy as ‘gangsters.’
Rationally, when David Granger began touting A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) as the new face of the PNC, you would have thought that if he was sincere and faced with this glaring evidence of contradiction, he would have apologised for his past actions. But not Granger, rather he went to Berbice and again sought to lay the blame at the feet of Berbicians by calling on them to “…commit themselves to national unity and racial reconciliation, and renounce thoughts of retaliation and recrimination.”
In essence, he was indicating that these people were somehow not committed to these ideals. It was his decision to conveniently journey back into the past and now he must deal with the consequences as records from the PNC’s X13 terrorist plan would show that they not only deliberately targeted East Indians in Guyana for extermination but any other individual or grouping they saw as a threat.
In fact, as indicated in an earlier column this week in the Chronicle, they were told that even if it was their brother, they must be destroyed, if they did not support the PNC’s terrorist operation to destroy Guyana.
So in 2014, if it is anyone who has to commit to ‘national unity and racial reconciliation…’ it is the Presidential Candidate of the PNC and APNU, David Granger.
Old Kai will re-jig his memory as it seems with age; his memory has become conveniently frail. His party’s X13 plan reveal how they targeted specific ethnic groups in Guyana, “On the night of 3rd July, 1963, members of the organisation at Ruimveldt Housing Scheme would have attacked East Indians there, as they had planned, but for the vigil of the army and the Police the plan was foiled.”
We are further informed that, “On 2nd July, 1963, at 9.30 a.m. Llewellyn John Solicitor and Assistant General Secretary of the P.N.C., held a meeting at Stabroek House, Croal Street. The following persons were present –

Maurice Edinboro, Roy Field and Rupert Smith. John disclosed that Mr. Williams the Trades Union Council representative from the United Kingdom had said that he had seen everything going normal, the (PPP) Govt. had recently reported an increase in Finance from trade and only Civil Servants were showing resistance to the Govt. John then said that since that was the case the Party would show its strength. He instructed that people be organised in teams to carry out the campaign of closing business places and beating people. He emphasised that no sentiment must be taken in.”
Yes, you read correctly: No sentiment must be taken in their campaign of beating our citizens.
The report then notes that following this meeting “campaigns of hooliganism were carried out in Georgetown and the East Bank Demerara. Several persons were beaten. The campaigns were to be carried out until L.F.S. Burnham informed the organisers to call them off. The campaign lasted until July 1963.”
We are left to wonder if this is the type of legacy Mr. Granger is proud of as, on August 7, 2013 he was quoted at an event as extolling the virtues of Burnham. He said that a research institute was necessary to keep the Burnham legacy alive so that this and future generations could understand who he was, what he did and the role he played in the development of Guyana.
And yet we act amazed when the PNC, now APNU, can team up with the AFC and cut billions upon billions from our national budgets and then tell us that by denying our people developmental initiatives, they are in fact helping to develop our nation.
It is understandable. After all, the Amerindians, cheaper electricity for consumers to accelerate development, UG students loans, the Integrity Commission, etc, are all collateral damage in the eyes of Guyana’s political Opposition.