The Government's cover up is slick. It lays blame on the protesters as hooligans who cannot accept the consequences of the democratic process. The international community agrees and supports the fraud. When violence erupts, troops will be brought in to suppress the protesters. The purpose of this analysis is to signal that the time to act is now.
Prevention is better than cure.
Suriname Plays on Divisions in Guyana Suriname knows that a house divided unto itself, as the Bible says, cannot stand. The Surinamese have watched the destruction of Guyana from the racial struggles and have pounced at the time when Guyana's capability to respond to armed aggression is almost non-existent. Several factors are at work in the humiliating treatment of Guyanese by the Surinamese in the Courentyne River and in the disregard which the Surinamese now show for Guyanese interests in the Atlantic Ocean. First, racial considerations have led to the under funding of the Guyanese Defence Force. Put in blunt terms, the army has a majority of Afro-Guyanese and the Government is suspicious of its loyalties.