PLEASE don’t take my word for it. Go to YouTube, type in the following words, “Gildarie- Freddie Kissoon Show, Vincent Alexander.” You will see and hear on that programme, last month, GECOM Commissioner saying that then Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield sought to disenfranchise the people of the East Coast. After uttering those words, he said, “I don’t agree with that.”

Now if someone like Alexander who is a PNC appointed commissioner, far removed by trillions of miles of being a supporter of the PPP, can say that, why can’t academics and civil activists publicly state that the March 2020 election was infused with conspiracies to destroy the official, legal results? To date, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has remained silent on the five months of rigging.

Google the incident of two cousins murdered in Cotton Tree, Guyana and you will see in one week, three statements from the GHRA about the exigency of forensic experts in the probe of the murders. Yet for five months, the attempted rigging of Guyana’s national election was going on and the GHRA did not issue three statements in five months on the rigging.

I had some respect for the former human rights official at the UN, Guyanese, Dr. Bertrand Ramcharran until he wrote me an email asking me not to criticise the Chairman of the GHRA, Mr. Mike Mc Cormack for being silent on the rigging. His email note urged: “Please go lightly on the GHRA. If Mc Cormack did not do it, which local Guyanese would have the dedication to do so? Something for you to reflect on.”

I couldn’t believe what this man had written to me, who once held a high position in the human rights section of the UN. If that rigging was allowed to be successful, Guyana would have collapsed in identical ways it did when Burnham denied Guyanese the right to vote. I replied in this way.

“Your wonderful mind was not applied to Guyana when Guyana needed you. You did not bat for democracy for five months, and then when you did bat it was for a human rights pretender like Mc Cormack. You have to live with your conscience and hypocrisy. You need to redeem yourself in the eyes of the Guyanese people. You need to publicly ask Mc Cormack why he and the GHRA were silent for those five months. Nothing less will suffice. Of course you would not do it. I know your kind.”

Let’s skip across to Red Thread, Here is what Red Thread wrote in the newspapers of April 27, 2023: “Red Thread is a small grassroots women’s organization and our goal is to organise with women beginning with grassroots women, to cross divides. We are a group of women who are not afraid to speak our truths. Should we not be concerned about what is happening in our country?”
So, we have to ask Red Thread if they know what truths are; if women’s rights include the right to vote and have that vote counted; if they are concerned about what happens in Guyana, then where were them during five months of election rigging? It was Vincent Alexander who said that Lowenfield sought to disenfranchise citizens in the March 2020 election. So didn’t those citizens include women?

It has to be the most nauseating expression of hypocrisy when a civil rights entity, named Red Thread can tell Guyanese that it is concerned about things that happen in their country but when the country’s national election was being tampered with for five consecutive months, Red Thread hibernated to Timbuktu.

To date, Red Thread has not issued a statement on the March election insanities. Guyanese are not fools. They know why Red Thread never touched that issue. Their class mentality, political preferences and skin colour got in the way.

Finally, the Stabroek News, “In The Diaspora” has done it again. In that column for June 26, the writer, Dr. Samuel Braithwaite, a Guyanese lecturer from UWI, wrote the following: “The country endured five months of uncertainty and heightened tension as the government and opposition battled in the courts.…” This gentleman could not bring himself to use the words, “fraud, “tampering,” “rigging.”

Dr. Braithwaite reduced five months of dire struggle on the part of the Guyanese people to prevent the abolition of free election and the return to permanent power as “five months of uncertainty.”
Yesterday, I noted that Dr. Desmond Thomas of the Electoral Reform Group is yet to pronounce on the five month rigging process. He joined Red Thread. Now Samuel Braithwaite has joined them to evade the realities of what took place in Guyana between March and July in 2020.