THE KILLING FIELDS

THE EDITOR: The blood of innocents spilled in July 1990 still cries vainly for Justice.  Blood it must be noted not of the so called “recalcitrant minority” nor of “white” or Sino Trinis, it is the blood of Afrocentric Christians murdered in a Muslim coup.  Bereaved relatives of assassinated police and others have had to suffer the addition of several insults to injury.  

First they watched unrepentant killers, of their nearest and dearest, flout justice on the spurious premise that bloody treason is unpunishable on grounds that an amnesty extracted at gunpoint is valid in Law. Even worse, $3m of their taxes was awarded, and a substantial percentage already paid to the Muslimeen, for “property damage” they suffered.  To date however, no attempt has been made to collect the $15M awarded against them for the widespread damage they caused in their attempted coup. Significantly that affirmation that justice in TT is not merely “blind” but deaf and dumb as well and that “the Law is an ass”  took place under “Born Again Christian” self styled “Father of the Nation” PM Patrick Manning. Nothing daunted he is currently, at taxpayers expense, seeking to ‘“promote the economic interest of Afro Trinis” to the exclusion of all others in our rainbow society.

Predictably, the latter objective is sought under a refinement of the traditional PNM cult of unsustainable dependency and homage to mediocrity; on this occasion under the acronyms URP and CEPEP. This time the stakes are immeasurably higher in anticipation of another oil and gas bonanza. The current bloody criminal phenomenon coincided with the PNM attempt to criminalise their deposed rivals after 24/12/01, and increased in intensity in tandem with that attempt to its current level. There can thus today be no doubt as to the real catalyst of the ongoing criminal rampage.

TG MENDES
On behalf of the victims of 1990