Human rights abuses dossier is attempt to disrupt Guyana's development, says minister
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| Published on Monday, November 23, 2009 |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- In a television programme entitled, “Perspectives This Week – Political Destabilization – Part One” which will air on the National Communications Network Channel 11, Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir, stated that the human rights abuses dossier that was published recently by the joint parliamentary opposition parties is an attempt to disrupt the significant developmental progress that Guyana has made over recent years.
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“(It) is another attempt at trying to use allegations of widespread human rights violations against the people of Guyana by the state as a tool to slow down the development agenda,” he said.
The Labour Minister noted that the main opposition party, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R), has been engaged in such behaviour from the inception of the current Administration in 1992. At that time, he said, the PNC/R had tried to undermine Government by crying mismanagement and cronyism to the international community to get them to stop providing the country with development finance.
“The initial salvo in order to destabilize democracy and development was to slow and stop the aid from flowing, but the Government was elected by a mandate form the people and those inflows started coming,” Minister Nadir stated.
Also, there were physical efforts to stymie development as well which included protest marches, the destruction of the Ministries of Finance, Labour and Water by fire and the 51-day long public sector strike in 1998.
However, after these efforts failed to stop Government from planting the seeds of democracy within the population, the PNC/R’s next step was to call for shared governance, and is now trying to destabilize the development push by unveiling the human rights abuses dossier.
“There has been a consistent effort to derail democracy to derail development,” the Labour Minister expounded.
But the Minister pointed out that the PNC/R’s efforts have been in vain and rather than destabilizing Government, it has made the Administration stronger as they have alienated their constituents and become marginalized.
He noted that before 1992, the current Administration could not consistently achieve a majority of the votes but is able to do so now with ease, as more and more people turn away from the negative politics of the PNC/R.
“They are stuck in one mode and that is ‘rule over ruin’. They don’t know anything else. You can win over significant persons to your side with doing good, decent politics but they don’t know that,” Minister Nadir stated. | | | | Reads : 533 | | | |
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