GIHA
PERSPECTIVE - 19TH December,2003
Guyana’s
wishy-washy Government
It is Christmas, a season for much jollification
so who can resist having a good laugh at the
description of the PPP Government as “irresolute
[synonyms for which are weak, wishy-washy, unsure,
vacillating, indecisive]”, as reported by the
World Bank? Words GIHA
has used for the Government’s wishy-washiness
include weak, sniveling, cowardly and spineless.
The World Bank’s report on Guyana’s
development policy is a vindication of all that
GIHA has been saying for a year and more, and for
which we withstood much abuse from the PPP and its
Government. Guyana has a crisis of governance, the
ethnic security issue is of primary importance,
the PNC plays its own humbug politics, and it is
time for a bridge of the ethnic political divide
– shared governance – before Guyana slides
further backward.
Word has come to us from Canada that the Tamil
Tigers are also laughing at us, at Indian Guyanese.
They have learned about the troubles faced by
Indians in Guyana, and are laughing! Strong,
dignified and courageous with leadership that
supports and encourages these qualities, they
laugh that a majority Indian population is
allowing itself to get beaten up! When they
learned that a government Indians vote for is in
office, they laughed even harder at these
wishy-washy “leaders”.
We deserve to be laughed at. We have turned away
from all the lessons taught in the Gita, Quran and
Bible about honour, dignity and courage to follow
weak, sniveling leaders who insist that we be as
cowardly as they. We have also given up Gandhian
courage. Gandhi always said that if he had to
choose between violence and cowardice to defend
honour, he would choose violence. No good leader
lets people be dishonoured and destroyed without
at least defending them yet here we are in Guyana
following people who do just that.
The Tamil Tigers and the Gurkhas of India are not
from a different genetic strain than we are and it
points to sinister work when a whole Indian
population can be made docile and cowardly. Even
up the 1960s Indians gave as good as they got in
the racial riots so the current docility has to be
a manufactured phenomenon.
The term “manufacturing docility” comes from
Swami Aksharnanda’s paper of that name which was
published in the GIHA Crime Report. In his paper,
Swamiji showed how the PPP Government weakened
Indians over forty years, and he denounced the
nonsense that Indians are genetically docile
people. Indians are dignified warriors when the
occasion demands it, when their honour must be
defended, but not in Guyana. Why?
When in mid-2002 GIHA helped a group in Annandale
to print fliers for a public meeting to discuss
the defence of the village, what happened? The PPP
got wind of the proposed meeting and rushed in to
tell Annandaleans to do nothing. “It go look
bad,” the PPP bigwig told them. What did
Annandale do? They did as the PPP told them –
nothing - and continued to be beaten, robbed,
raped and killed. The PPP’s
“honour” was saved. Its supporters did not
rise up to make demands. Indians are therefore
willing to give up honour and be killed to save
the PPP’s face, and the PPP thrives on this
slavish loyalty.
Four years before, on January 12, 1998, Moses
Nagamootoo, then Minister of Information, went on
television and told Indians to bear all they could
bear and take their licks quietly on a day when
African Guyanese took to the streets to beat, rob
and rape Indians. He now wants to be president!
The PPP wears 28 years of defeat at the PNC’s
hands as its badge of “honour”. Defeat is its
only victory because in 28 years it did not ever
try to topple the dictator. The WPA led that fight
and its leader died a hero in that struggle. But
heroism is not the PPP’s strong suit. Run, take
your licks, and live to tell the dishonourable
tale - this is the cowardly PPP summed up.
There is a point in abusive relationships when the
abused refuses to take any more. One would have
expected Indians to have reached this point by
now. In Georgia recently, the people overthrew an
unpopular president. This would not happen in
Guyana because Indians do not trust Africans and
vice versa but it will be a starting point when
Indians accept that the PPP Government is wholly
responsible for the violence against them since
Government is in charge of maintaining law and
order and has failed miserably to carry out this
most important mandate.
It will be a turning point when these heinous
betrayers of all Guyana understand that everyone
has had enough of their cowardice, weakness and
abuse.
COMMENTS from Khem
Good article!! an excellent analysis of the current situation. It can
be liken to the slaves who were freed in America but did not know how to
defend that freedom. After over a hundred years it took Martin Luther
King's wisdom to truly liberate them. I have said before the PPP is
demonstrating the psychological effects of abuses. They need to know what
the Pakis are doing to West Indian badjohns in London. Take no crap!!!
Khem
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