SUPPORTERS of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) were last evening called upon by chairman of the coalition Rupert Roopnarine to form an ocean of resistance and rebellion which must rip through the coast and hinterland as a demonstration to the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) that freedom and democracy cannot juts be shut down.

“Over the next week we want to ensure you that we will be calling on you the people of Guyana not only here in Georgetown but we must build what David called an ocean of rebellion, an ocean of resistance. We must have the resistance from the peaks of the Pakaraimas on to the Rupununi all through the coast, we must demonstrate to these people that the Guyanese peoples thirst for freedom and democracy cannot just be shut down,” Roopnarine said.
In response to the decision President Donald Ramotar to prorogue the National Assembly to allow for dialogue, the APNU chairman asked of the crowd: “What is it you expect of us with respect to this decision, I believe that he will interrupt it and dissolve the parliament and call national elections and we want to assure you and we want to assure him and the PPP we would be ready with the answer,” he said.
The supporters were told that the gathering at the Square of the Revolution by the APNU and the AFC was a test match and the meeting there was to demonstrate that there is serious work to do. Roopnarine told the gathering that they cannot afford to let this thing pass.
He made it clear that the gathering outside the Square of the revolution had no plans to march on the Office of the President as was being touted by sections of the media.
“So tonight we are starting the long march and we are hearing a lot of panic, a member of the diplomatic community who wanted to be here tonight was afraid because of all the stories he was hearing that what we were planning to do was to march on the Office of the President tonight, I want to assure him that that is not on the agenda tonight, I am not assuring him that the time for that may not come but I can tell him that that is not happening tonight. We have come to discuss with you the abomination of the prorogation of Parliament which has to be met with a very firm response from the people of the country”
Roopnarine told the gathering that the Guyanese people have a deep attachment to democratic freedoms have an unquenched thirst for freedom and of democracy and that they intend to if necessary to put their lives on the line in defence of our democracy.
The gathering was also told that was the beginning of the work and for the APNU and AFC to announce to the President that they intend to mobilise a broad collation of forces to fight for the restoration of democracy.
The grouping spoke of its intention to enter into active discussions with trade unions, religious organisations and to ensure that every workplace and every citizen can come together to begin the discussion on the way forward to escape from the clutches of a dictatorship.
Meanwhile, political observers have said that AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo’s absence from the rally is significant because, for political reasons, their absence is seen as deliberate and part of a plan between the APNU and AFC to continue to undermine the PPP support base.