Group,
Sutley should
be able to say whatever he feels,
however,
raping Jagdeo's wife
is not the answer. I know there are high
tensions in the bigger islands between afros and Indians
and it must be addressed, so therefore sutley should
not be censured. Every opinion counts whether it is approved or
disliked.
I can understand that the Government in Guyana
seems to be incompetent and is promoting Tourism and the Cricket World
Cup but is doing nothing to control the Bandits who are terrorising
the Country.
I too think that the words in the post is a bit too graphic but one
can understand & share the frustration & pain of the victims
as the genocide
continues. A point to note is that if this trend continues
unabated, then soon there won't be people of Indian descent in Guyana.
Because they will either be dead or they would have left Guyana.
I agree with what you say.
President Jagdeo wants people to return to
Guyana or to invest in the Country but his mis-management is having
the opposite effect.
All the people with money to invest are going
back to/to America/Canada as their Families are targets for
kidnappers.
He might as well join the Bandits as he
doesn't seem to be against them.
If he continues in his policies then there
won't be much of an East Indian population in that Country for much
longer, not too different from the Burnham days.
Its sad that we are discussing the hard lives
our Ancestors had and after more than 150 years nothing much as
changed, they might as well re-introduce Indentureship. !!
I believe that there similar problems in
Trinidad as well, a Country that used to be much more stable.
You mentioned the situation in Trinidad. This is something that is
puzzling. Unlike Guyanese, Trinidadians are exposed to higher education--access to UWI for a Trinidadian is like going to UG
for a Guyanese. For a regular Guyanese--UWI is a dream. There are so many Indians in TT with
PhDs etc and yet apart from their degrees, they paddling up the same creek as
Guyanese. Why is this? With their
higher education--why do they still have to fight for the same rights as their Guyanese counterparts? Most of the qualified
Guyanese do not stay in Guyana so there has been a brain-drain as Dr. Martin Boodhoo termed it. The educated Trinidadians are still
in TT yet the same atrocities are being meted out to them too...That they seem to be accepting it, I find rather astonishing.
We hear of no major opposition to racism meted out to Indians in TT-- I am not talking about the politicians. I mean the educated civic
Trinidadians--we hear of very few standing up for Indians rights in TT .Why is this so? Are they comfortable with the treatment of
Indians in TT? Or is it that because of their status and their insulated, secure lifestyle--they couldn't be bother about the plight
of the ordinary Indians ketching their asses for a living?
For those who are too young to know--Burnham destroyed the education system in Guyana and also ensured that Indians in Guyana were denied
higher education. This was because Indian parents were ensuring that their kids get higher education. Indians were the majority at UG so
he introduced National Service and that was the beginning of two
things--
1. the exodus of Indians who wanted to continue their
education
2. lots of Indians especially girls were denied higher
education because the ones who dared to go to National Service were victims of
rape. There was this doctor at New Amsterdam who related recently
that when the boat used to come out from Kimbia in Berbice- one of the stops were his clinic where mostly Indian girls used to go for
abortions.
Guyanese had had to go through all levels of demeaning and atrocities at the hands of Burnham that it sometimes seems
unbelievable that it really occurred and was only a nightmare. It is most disgusting to see the PPP now
fulfilling most of Burnham's dreams. Indians are still fleeing these shores and the
ones remaining are still made to feel as if they do not belong to Guyana.
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