Mr. Eusi Kwayana (EK) is someone I grew up with in political activism. He is a Guyanese. Up to March 2022, I respected panegyrics on his activism.

In March 2020, when the most definitive injection of rigging a national election anywhere in the world began to unfold, I used my columns to ask EK to contribute his voice to the denunciation of the degeneracy.

EK, who is currently going into age 98, did not refuse my request but simply replied to say from his distance in the United States, he cannot pronounce on what is taking place in Guyana.
He expressed this thought to me in April and at the conclusion of five months of attempts of tampering with the election results in July. EK still declined to offer his words on election rigging.

Since the election of 2020, EK has not penned one word on the mountain of evidence of election rigging. EK now has a document available to him. It is that document I will use to ask EK for a discourse but first, a request by EK indirectly made to me.
Writing in the letter pages of the newspapers last Monday, he wrote: “I invite scholars and analysts to engage in a thoughtful discourse on this viewpoint.”
What is this viewpoint of EK? He wants to know how persons would approach his take on the undermining of the principles of the United Nations by Israel in relation to the two-state solution.

He is implying that Israel was a creation of the UN and the very UN also created a state for the Palestinian people by the two-state blueprint. Now with Israel’s action in Gaza, he would like to hear what scholars and analysts think about the jeopardy Israel has placed UN principles in.
Here is my position, then I will invite EK to share his thoughts on one of the most important documents ever produced in Guyana. The genocide in Gaza has weakened the UN to the point where I think the UN will become ineffective beyond decades. The UN will not find it easy seeking successful outcomes in civil war situations.
Member states that are involved in the violation of international laws will not accept UN chastisement. The Security Council will find it almost impossible to impose sanctions on erring nations because they are going to point to the double standards in relation to Israel.
Now, I am inviting EK to offer his perspective(s) on the following document; “Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the General and Regional Elections of Guyana, On March 2, 2020.” I believe, though I cannot be definite that the document in available online.
If EK falls back on the excuse that he has not got a copy, I will use all my energy to see a hardcopy is sent to him by DHL. But he must agree to comment on the report either positively or critically.

I quote from the report: “In summary, our inquiry reveals that they were, in fact, shockingly brazen attempts by the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, Deputy Chief Election Officer (RO), Roxanne Myers and Returning Officer, (RO) Clairmont Mingo to derail and corrupt the statutorily prescribed procedure for the counting, ascertaining and tabulation of votes.”

Even if EK does not agree with the findings of the report, I and every other Guyanese in and out of the land would like to hear his views on the document. I want EK to know I am not singling him out.

I will direct the same request in a forthcoming column to Dr. Bertrand Ramcharran, a Guyanese who once worked in the UN Human Rights Department. Dr. Ramcharran had written to me to ask that I tone down my criticism of Mr. Mike McCormack of the Guyana Human Rights Commission. More of that later.
EK is at advanced age and I think Guyana’s historiography will be left poorer if he does not offer his perspectives on the report. I have used only one quote from the document. When I do my article on Dr. Ramcharran, I will offer more extracts. Any historian, if he/she is objective, will interpret the Commission’s findings as one of the most valuable pieces of paper in this country’s history.

I would urge citizens to read it. I end with a harsh conclusion. Any Guyanese who claim they are interested in human rights, democracy, and the moral conduct of politicians, public servants and the police force that refuses to read and comment on that document is unworthy to be part of modern society.