From: umbacchu@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Emran Ally Bacchus)
Subject: Elections and Riots
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:52:32 GMT

This poll will go down as the most violent in guyana's history; the old forces
ensured that 'race hate mashing up guyana's  world' . They deserve honourable
mention with the irresronsible leaders of eastern europe as they fought the
campaign on ethnic insecurity and combine it with a HAMMIE inspired and
directed riot. The timing of these combined to allow ethnic voting that has
placed the dentist up front with the p.n.c. in second ; just as they both
sought to . So mission is accomplished as far as a changing of the guard is
concerned.

The P.N.C. is making no concession that they have lost and after the riots 
that influenced the ethnic voting, the CARTER CENTRE is now considering a
transition period; something they had rejected form the combined opposition
previously! A one race dominated government is unsettling and this was the
P.N.C.'s back up plan. It was how Hoyte was able to persuade his party to
accept the ' relatively transparent ' poll. It was their idea to ensure that
the dentist won but with a P.N.C. opposition ---- indian/ black parliament.

30 years ago the Burnham bunch was able to capitalize on the considerable
mistakes made by the dentist, who had office but not power, and initate
the racial fratricide. The challenge for the P.P.P. is to rein in the
extremists  and govern in a national framework. This is a monumental task
given their recent behavior and past ones...

It is apparent that  both parties conspired to mitigate an issues oriented
election; both has become the beneficiaries of hammie's handiwork- as
intended. Here is a list of acts that has made this poll far from being
FREE FROM FEAR:
  1. the innuendos from the P.P.P. that The W.P.A. was going to bed with the
  P.N.C ; made to INDO-GUYANESE. THE P.N.C. did the reverse with Afro-
Guyanese.

  2. W.P.A. had its polling agents ejected from a few polling stations.

 3. Polling was done after polls were closed and no controls was in place.

  4. Multiple voting was observed by both parties; the ink was not indelible
   as it was supposed to be.
 
  5. OF COURSE. THE RIOTS THAT STARTED IN DOWNTOWN GERGETOWN AND INVOLVED
    NEW AMSTERDAM and to a lesser extent, MACKENZIE. 
    The targets were INDIAN businesses and the election commision.
    The media did its best to fan the flame and it was the handiwork
    OF HAMMIE   " NOT OF AFRICANS IN GENERAL"""
   In

   In future posts I will outline a copy of tthe Wismar Report that
investigated the 1962 riots , because the new rulers used the fratricide to
gain votes of one race; they falsely represented  THE ROLE OF W.P.A.S' 
EUSI KWAYANA  and ignored this document which was commisioned by
the 1962 P.P.P. government. 
This election was fought on the past not on the future; only the people of
the Rupununi seemed to have been unafected by the race issue. But I wonder
if that is because the AMERINDIANS do not fit into black / indian equation.

It is possible that  more violence could errupt when the final result is
announced. At the moment their is a news blackout!!!!



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