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It now evident that Granger and his illegal cabal want to cling to power by illegal means.

Many countries saw dictators and their illegal cabals dragged in the streets by people wanting their votes counted.

Can this happen in Guyana ?

Gaddafi's last words as he begged for mercy: 'What did I do to you?'

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As National Transitional Council fighters fought their way into Sirte, radio intercepts spoke of 'an asset' in the besieged city. But no one knew until the final moments that the deposed dictator was within their grasp
Frame grab of a man purported to be former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Unconscious or already dead, former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is seen in this still image taken from video footage on 20 October, 2011. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters

Osama Swehli is bearded and wears his hair long, tied back in a thick ponytail. A soldier with the National Transitional Council’s fighters in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, his English is fluent from his time living in west London.

Until the fall of Sirte – Muammar Gaddafi’s home city – Swehli was one of those who listened in to the radio frequencies of the pro-Gaddafi defenders of the besieged city.

Twelve days ago, the Observer encountered Swelhi at a mortar position in

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Hey hey hey...dem peopkle who use to throw shit pon columnis face, tek way newspaper ad, tek ova Chronicle, tek dem kickback, use state resource foh dem person, fyah yuh mattie who queshton yuh illegal act, etc etc...hey hey hey...now is de greatest fighter man foh we democracy...hey hey hey.

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Dictator Deaths: How 13 Notorious Leaders Died

How Dictators Die

Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin

Mao Zedong at the side of Joseph Stalin at Stalin's 71st birthday celebration in Moscow in 1949. (Image credit: Public Domain)

Live by the sword, die by the sword? For brutal dictators, the adage is more often than not completely false.

In fact, dictators and warlords are more likely to die of old age or disease than at the hands of an enraged populace or sneaky assassin, according to an analysis by Matthew White, author of "The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011). White's look back at history found that 60 percent of oppressive warmongering types lived "happily ever after."

There may be little justice for the wicked, but the deaths of dictators do provide some pretty interesting tales. Here's how 13 of the world's most notorious modern leaders kicked the bucket.

Benito Mussolini, Italy (1883-1945)

Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini addresses a crowd in Rome during his rule. (Image credit: Public Domain)

Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini was ousted from politics in July 1943 when the country's prospects of victory in World War II soured. The ouster was the beginning of the end for Mussolini; he was immediately arrested and imprisoned at the Hotel Campo Imperatore in central Italy until September, when German paratroopers rescued him. He was taken to Germany, and then Lombardy in northern Italy, but he seemed to know the end was near. In 1945, he told an interviewer, "Seven years ago I was an interesting person. Now I am a corpse."

 
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Guyana’s President Burnham Dies at 62

TIMES STAFF WRITER

President Forbes Burnham of Guyana died Tuesday of heart failure during surgery on his throat. One of his closest associates was sworn in as the former British colony’s new president.

Burnham, 62, had headed the South American nation of 800,000 people since it gained full independence in 1966. He called himself a Marxist, but his leftism often seemed mostly rhetorical.

His government was never radical enough to attract much international notice. What did draw world attention to Burnham’s Guyana was the fatal poisoning in 1978 of 911 members of the Peoples Temple cult commune called Jonestown. Burnham had allowed the Rev. Jim Jones--who incited the mass murder-suicide that included himself--to move his sect from Northern California to a jungle site near the Venezuelan border.

Shortly after Burnham’s death at mid-morning in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, his Cabinet chose Prime Minister Desmond Hoyte as his successor. Hoyte, 56, was first vice president and has served previously in other Cabinet positions.

 

‘Common Destiny’

“We shall draw strength in each other and ponder our common destiny as authoritatively defined for us by our great leader,” Hoyte said. He added that his government will be conducted as Burnham would have wished.

A U.S. official in Washington said, “Hoyte has been described to us as intelligent and competent but difficult to deal with--sensitive to criticism of the country and high-strung.”

Burnham was elected prime minister of the self-governing colony, then named British Guiana, in 1964 and became the country’s first prime minister at independence two years later. He won reelection in 1968, 1973 and 1978, although his critics accused him of fixing the elections.

 
 

After having the constitution changed to make Guyana a “cooperative republic,” Burnham was elected “executive president” in 1980. The constitution requires that new elections be called by March, 1986.

There was no official government announcement Tuesday providing details of the nature of the throat operation, but one source said it was to remove a polyp.

The president was said to have had an ailing heart for several years. According to some unconfirmed reports, he also suffered from diabetes.

Jack Galinas, a New York public relations man who worked for Burnham, said he had heard that the president suffered some sort of a “scare” about his heart about 3 1/2 years ago. “I remember they were trying to get him to take it easy,” Galinas said.

Galinas, who knew Burnham for 14 years, said the president was not the leftist he sometimes appeared to be. “He was no more a Marxist than I am, and I’m a Republican,” Galinas said. He said Burnham spiked his speeches with Marxist rhetoric to better appeal to the electoral majority.

“Burnham is like a cork in the ocean and moves with the tides,” said his chief rival, Cheddi Jagan, in a February interview. Jagan is leader of Guyana’s Moscow-oriented People’s Progressive Party.

Burnham, a fellow founder of that party, broke with Jagan in 1957 and formed the People’s National Congress party. The political split deepened divisions between the two main ethnic groups in Guyana. Burnham was black, and Jagan is of East Indian descent.

Burnham sharply criticized the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada in October, 1983, and suggested as recently as February that Guyana might be the next country to be invaded. The United States suspended loan programs to Guyana in 1984.

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Desmond Hoyte, 73, Former President of Guyana, Dies

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Desmond Hoyte, the former president of Guyana who began a thaw of his nation's socialist policies and ushered in a democratic transition to his opponents, died last Sunday in Georgetown, the capital. He was 73.

The cause was heart failure, The Associated Press reported, citing Guyanese media reports.

Mr. Hoyte became prime minister in 1985 on the death of his predecessor, Forbes Burnham, a socialist whose body was sent to Moscow for embalming. Guyana's cold-war embrace of leftist ideology had resulted in overwhelming government control of the economy.

Mr. Hoyte had been a Burnham protégé, but as president he gradually dismantled some of the isolationist policies of the nation -- which had been renamed the Cooperative Republic of Guyana after gaining independence from Britain in 1966.

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/1...-of-guyana-dies.html

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There should be no popular uprising for a fail racist anti koolie Mugabe Republic. Guyana East Indian, Douglas who love their East Indian culture and Allies of the East Indian people of Guyana lives are too precious. The long term aim of our people should be to get an Independent country of our own.

Prashad

I would like to see non-violence and civility prevails, but if it comes to it, people must fight to defend their democracy now than ever before. Guyanese would not be the first and the last to fight for what they believe is vital to their lives. Que sera sera. 

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