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Home Affairs minister Clement Rohee is expected to take the stand on Wednesday  as hearing by a commission of inquiry into the shooting to death of three protesters in Linden on July 18 last continue. The minister, according to sources, is very anxious to take the stand to state his position.

Politicians from the opposition  are maintaining police shot and killed the protesters upon instructions from Rohee, an allegation he has since denied. No evidence has been provided to link the police or Rohee to the shootings.

There were accusations too that Rohee who has oversight of the police force had been in contact during the stand-off at the Wismar/McKenzie bridge on the day of the fatal shooting, however telephone records that emerged subsequently quelled that allegation since it showed indeed there were calls between the Home Affairs Minister and the then commander Clifton Hicken, but it was after the shooting took place.

Lawyers for the Lindeners who were killed and those who were injured, have been pressing for the minister to take the stand and he has now indicated he will do so on Wednesday.

But observers are now questioning whether or not it is necessary for him to be grilled by the commissioners and cross examined by lawyers since so far there have been no evidence implicating him in any way.

Many are courting political motive, since many of the lawyers who are representing the victims are either members of parliament  or hold senior positions in the opposition.

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Originally Posted by Conscience:

Home Affairs minister Clement Rohee is expected to take the stand on Wednesday  as hearing by a commission of inquiry into the shooting to death of three protesters in Linden on July 18 last continue. The minister, according to sources, is very anxious to take the stand to state his position.

Politicians from the opposition  are maintaining police shot and killed the protesters upon instructions from Rohee, an allegation he has since denied. No evidence has been provided to link the police or Rohee to the shootings.

There were accusations too that Rohee who has oversight of the police force had been in contact during the stand-off at the Wismar/McKenzie bridge on the day of the fatal shooting, however telephone records that emerged subsequently quelled that allegation since it showed indeed there were calls between the Home Affairs Minister and the then commander Clifton Hicken, but it was after the shooting took place.

Lawyers for the Lindeners who were killed and those who were injured, have been pressing for the minister to take the stand and he has now indicated he will do so on Wednesday.

But observers are now questioning whether or not it is necessary for him to be grilled by the commissioners and cross examined by lawyers since so far there have been no evidence implicating him in any way.

Many are courting political motive, since many of the lawyers who are representing the victims are either members of parliament  or hold senior positions in the opposition.

The people who were shot are saying the Police shot them. To say the opposition is selling this story assumes it is not the prevailing narrative. What is happening here is the PPP are trying to pretend as usual that they do not have incompetent brutal thugs as members of its security force. That they could have done this is not a remote thing. They are brutish because the government want it so.

 

The PPP habit of denying its responsibility is beyond tiresome. It is aggravating. Instead of pretending they do not face an ominous adversary of half of the population who hate their asses and will continue to hate them they need to ask why and not try to sell the stupid racist line that they are that way naturally.

 

Our political system where parties with ethnic identity can dominate politics must be addressed. The fact that we see Indians in every echelon of authority and power is not happenstance. It is inevitable no less than the adversarial position of the marginalized and discounted blacks. In the era of LFSB Indian felt the same way. It was wrong then and it is wrong now. Unless this corrupt PPP come to some epiphany about this no commission conclusion matters.

 

This will come and go and nothing will come of it. African and mixed people will continue to throw stones and occasionally take vent their hate on the hapless Indian who come within their range. But that is symptom of the disease and not the cause. That reside with the maintenance of this corrupt system that disenfranchisement of one half of the population and yet taking on the nomenclature of a democratic process. This is our odium.

FM

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