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Reply to ""Walter" save us please!"

VVP posted:

I was there; part of the action every day in body and spirit.  I could care less what you "ghost writers" claim you know.

Yes, most of the people who showed up during the protests were Africans.  However, Rodney did get major support from "stay at home" Indians including my die-hard PPPite parents because he was the only hope to oust Burnham during the dictatorship.

Rodney support was so strong that Dr. Jagan at Kitty Market square assured his (Jagan) supporters that if free and fair elections were held the PPP would win.  This I heard with my own ears. It shocked me to hear Dr. Jagan say this at a prime time during the struggle, but I guess he was just another politician.

This doesn't rise to national unity. Africans hated Burnham because the shortages and black market prices seriously hurt them, and in addition some were beginning to lose their jobs.

But they would rather a Burnham than a Jagan.

Indian support for Rodney was because they had lost faith in Jagan being able to contain Burnham's excesses.

Having lost the support of the African population, and realizing that he would never win Indian support Burnham became an evil megalomaniac who actually contemplated doing to Guyana what the Pol Pot regime did to Cambodia. 

Burnham by the late 70s had fallen to the same mental disease that men with absolute power succumb to. Same as Amin, Stalin, Hitler and Castro.

But take away the Burnham factor and Indians and Africans would have resumed their distrust, so I cannot agree that Walter Rodney brought unity.

The uniting factor was HATRED of Burnham!

FM
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