Historian Dr Walter Rodney was the victim of a State-organised assassination on June 13th, 1980 and this could only have been possible with the knowledge of then PNC Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, the Commission of Inquiry (coI) into his death has found.
In the most detailed examination to date of a near 36-year-old mystery that deeply divided the country and stained the image of the PNC, the three-person inquiry, headed by Barbadian QC Sir Richard Cheltenham, also found that the late soldier Gregory Smith carried out the killing and he was then spirited out of the country to French Guiana in an elaborate operation spearheaded by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
That's terrible, how can the state even plan and execute such a plan? It's no wonder not a lot of people trust the government even these days. I just hope that they can investigate this case further and won't let something like it happen again.
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That's terrible, how can the state even plan and execute such a plan? It's no wonder not a lot of people trust the government even these days. I just hope that they can investigate this case further and won't let something like it happen again.
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But it did happen again. Sawh, a minister even, was murdered. But because he was East Indian it does not seem to be important. Like is only black people getting justice. That is unfair and against the law. East Indians have to press the government for equality in the eyes of the law. Until Sawh's murder is investigated there will be no justice for any murdered East Indian in Guyana.
It doesn't matter if Sawh was a militant or not. He was however an elected member of the government, and investigating the murder of a government minister takes priority over that of a member of the public.
