Excuse
me again, Mr. Felix,
your slip is showing again,
sir
At the time of going to press, Commissioner of Police,
Winston Felix, has not returned my call. It could be that he was
unable to do so because of exigent circumstances.
I regret that I couldn't ascertain his feelings on information I
received from reliable sources to the effect that at a meeting, Mr.
Felix expressed diminished optimism about the potential of the
Guyana Police Force to eliminate the threat
Buxton poses to national stability.
My source remarked that after voicing that observation, Mr. Felix
chose not to offer an explanation on why the police force lacks a
defining strategy for Buxton.
I hope if Mr. Felix reads this, he would get back to me for a
discussion on what resources the police would need to execute the
death blow to the nihilist gunmen in Buxton.
I would be glad to devote one of my columns to our dialogue, with
the specific intention of putting forward a case for the police.
My understanding is that Mr. Felix proceeds shortly on
pre-retirement leave. If that is so, it would leave a void in his
long contribution to the police force.
Any commissioner would like to bring closure to Buxton. It would
be the moment of glory in their career. I would truly like to hear
Mr. Felix expand on the topic of the insurmountability of the Buxton
predicament.
What had he in mind when he showed a pessimistic face about
police success in Buxton at that meeting?
How interesting that I heard this attitude about Mr. Felix, just
two days before Dale Andrews did his eye-opener on the danger Buxton
poses to the forthcoming national
election.
Dale told me that when he got the scoop from the former Target
Squad member, the last thing on his mind was the political
implications his news story would have.
He suggested that even though what he was reporting would raise
eye-brows about certain political figures, his role as a journalist
was to report the facts.
I have news for Dale. Many dimensions of his reporting were
covered in my series on the Buxton conspiracy for the Kaieteur News and the Chronicle.
I did a total of sixteen articles that documented the role of
politics in the criminal debauchery of Buxton, and the confluence of
criminality and politics in that tragic village that the WPA and
Eusi Kwayana, through decades of dogged political work, helped to
shape as one of the most remarkably politicized villages in the
entire country.
People may not know it, but during Rodney's groundings, Buxton
became a paragon of multi-racial consciousness.
African Buxtonians marched in emotional embrace with Indians from
Annandale during the great period of Rodney's charisma.
Someone with the unique praxis of David Hinds was a product of
that epoch. It must have psychologically devastated Eusi Kwayana to
see who have taken over Buxton, and the bestial marauders who kill
with pleasure, using politics as a disguise for their insane
criminality.
But why is the tragedy of Buxton a political, cultural and
personal crisis for Eusi Kwayana only?
I mean, we can sympathize and empathize with him. He gave the
greater part of his life to Buxton. We cannot begin to imagine how
he feels, when an Indian can die any moment from an AK 47 carried by
a sixteen-year-old Buxtonian youth trained to kill by people who are
not from Buxton, and who are literally ignorant of the history of
the village and Guyanese politics.
But the insanity of Buxton is a Shakespearean lament in the life
of many of us who fought alongside people in the WPA, who are now
supporters of the criminal venture in Buxton.
One of them has direct contact with the extremist teachers.
Another is an eminent Guyanese scholar and comrade of Walter
Rodney.
I don't agree entirely with the analysis of what the ex-Target
Squad officer told Dale, about how the politics of the movement got
overthrown by the criminal lust for wealth by the five escapees.
My intelligence gathered over the 18-month period, led me to a
different direction. This is where the Police Commissioner's diluted
optimism is relevant.
We must be careful when we seek to interpret what the
Commissioner meant, when he predicted a lack of successes in
extirpating the criminal cancer of Buxton.
Does he mean that the Guyana Police Force simply does not have
the physical and technological resources to exorcise the criminal
sarcoma from Buxton?
Or is he trying to tell the audience to whom he spoke at that
meeting, that the political nuance to the Buxton conspiracy defies
logic, and is the factor that makes the situation intractable?
But exactly how many dimensions of politics do we have in Buxton?
Which one of these parallels was he referring to?
There are two types of political factors that make Buxton a
formidable force to confront. The first angle is the extremist
involvement.
These are people with access to a certain television channel,
namely Channel 9 and a political party and a cultural organization,
the PNCR and ACDA respectively.
The extremist fringe, (which certainly included Philip Bynoe, and his particular
partner who has been arrested) has ongoing contacts with a number of
important politicized organizations in Guyana.
Guns came from Suriname and the burnt down GDF site on the Linden
highway, Camp Groomes. Guns are still pouring in to Buxton, arranged
by, at least, two well known former GDF personnel.
A prominent politician
secures recruits from the West Coast and Mocha on the East Bank.
Dale Andrews mentioned a recognized city
lawyer, who was the central figure in the Mash Day
jailbreak. Most of us who investigated the Buxton conspiracy, know
about another lawyer who had extensive contacts with Dale Moore. Both of these lawyers should start paying their
taxes.
One is certain that these kinds of intelligence data are
available to Commissioner Felix, and this could have motivated his
pessimistic opinion on Buxton.
But there is another take on the politics of Buxton; this time
from an unusual perspective.
It should be considered a distinct possibility that the PPP may
want to prolong Buxton indefinitely, because Buxton hold the trump
card for that party that has almost nothing else going for it, after
13 years in power.
Buxton reminds every Indian that there is a race problem in
Guyana in which Indians are being killed with
impunity.
No one could do anything about it ,except the PPP which is in
Government. The PPP acting on this insecurity, then asks for a
chance to finally deal with Buxton.
This is likely to be a scenario in the forthcoming election.
Mr. Felix may have been a bit
awkward
Thursday
06-09-2005