| Although I agree with our learned friend Yeon Adams, I am as lost as you are to know where were Amnesty International and the Human Rights when for years escaped and other criminals were killing, torturing and raping innocent people in Buxton and several other places as well? It appears that Amnesty International and the Human Rights are politically motivated organizations. Steve DeCarmo American global atrocities are incredible. In Iraq many have been taken from their homes and humiliated(illtreated and imprisoned on suspicions). Al Queda suspects continue to suffer serious human rights violations in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Many of these so called freedom fighters will be denied the right to legal representation. They are treated as animals. These men have children and wives who are concern about their treatment. What is Amnesty International doing to highlight these concerns- NOTHING. They are eager to make demands on psuedo accusations against the legitimate government of Guyana at the "bat of an eye-lid" When it comes to Western human rights violations it seems to be OK. Can anyone take these people seriously?? What about the violations of Indian rights in Fiji and Guyana??? Did they have anything to say about that??? Amnesty International needs to take off the blinders that they are wearing and see the light... They have fallen victim to Western Propaganda machine. Khem |
THE
Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has adopted an astonishing position on
the joint Army-Police operation against dangerous criminals who have for about
three years made Buxton their safe haven, transforming the once peaceful village
into the epicentre of a crime wave that has gripped the coast.
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As the
security forces tightened the Buxton lockdown on Tuesday, sending huge
sighs of relief among beleaguered Guyanese here and abroad that something
was at last being done to end the murderous terror unleashed by gangs from
that enclave, the GHRA stunned law-abiding citizens with its amazing
conclusion that `Operation Stiletto’ was an “ill-conceived
disgrace.”
It,
in some kind of twisted logic, contended that from the “perspectives of
human rights and peace, this exercise may prove to be very costly” and
called on the Government to take “immediate steps” to redress the
“traumatic effects of this operation on law-abiding citizens of Buxton
and to counter negative racial and political repercussions further afield.” The
association – which has been deafeningly silent on the killings and
brutal attacks on citizens from gangs based in Buxton – also registered
concern that the security forces had not given notice of what was clearly
designed to have been a surprise exercise to end the reign of terror. It
also seemed more worried about the detention of persons for questioning by
the Police – perfectly normal in security operations of this nature –
than about the overall intent of the exercise which officials said is to
round up dangerous criminals and illegal arms and ammunition. The
bandits who had converted Buxton into their safe haven are not petty
criminals. These were men who had no hesitation in opening murderous fire
on Police and soldiers deployed in operations on a smaller scale before
and several cops and at least one soldier died at their hands. They
had also cowed villagers who opposed their presence in the village into
fear and some of those who dared to speak out were attacked and driven
out. Their control had become so total that they even stopped repairs on a
road and a bridge, declaring that improving these would help the security
forces better pursue them. In
short, sections of Buxton had degenerated into a state within a state and
the clear message from the gangs was that they were in control. Even the
electricity and water companies were unable to conduct routine duties like
reading meters and sending bills to customers in that troubled village. The gangs dug up main roads at will to trap, attack, rob and in some cases kill the hapless passing through and the list of atrocities perpetrated by them has been growing. In
short, Buxton had become synonymous with naked fear (an intolerable
injustice to the law-abiding villagers) and the question was how much
longer will the reign of terror continue? The
GHRA throws up something resembling a fig leaf saying it has “been clear
for some time to any impartial observer that the situation in Buxton has
become intolerable” and talks about a campaign to “win hearts and
minds”. It,
perhaps, should have led the way to winning `hearts and minds’ by
shifting its Georgetown headquarters to the Buxton back lands to better
serve the human rights concerns it is now so worried about. The
GHRA’s `military strategists’ also passed judgment on the massive
joint military operation now under way but did not share its secretive
operational blueprint to tackle the criminal gangs with the Army and
Police hierarchy before `Operation Stiletto’ was launched. So,
whose human rights is the GHRA really worried about? It didn’t seem to
care much about the human rights of citizens for so long terrified by the
Buxton gangs and now tears its hair and gnashes its teeth at a
long-awaited massive and prolonged security operation designed to end
those fears. The association, by this disgraceful stand, is in danger of becoming an irrelevance in Guyana.
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