Police kill suspected murderer of Guyanese minister
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| Published on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): A man wanted for the 2006 murder of Guyana's agriculture minister Satyadeow Sawh and two of his sisters -- all three naturalized Canadians-- was killed Tuesday in a shootout with security forces, police said.
Police spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker said Orlando Andrews, one of 10 men wanted for the April 2006 assassination, was shot and killed after he and other gunmen opened fire on police and soldiers cordoning off a house at Buxton village, considered a haven for armed gangs.
Police said another gunman was killed in the shootout and a third was arrested, while several others managed to escape.
Sawh and his sisters, Rajpatri Sawh and Phulmattie Persaud, whose family was or Indian origin, were killed when several assailants armed with assault rifles broke into his home shortly after the three had returned from a social gathering.
Andrews was the second suspect in Sawh's death to have been killed by police after John Anthony Heywood was shot in October 2006.
Whittaker identified the gunman arrested Tuesday as David Zammett, also known as David Leander, another Sawh murder suspect.
In December, police charged 19-year old Germaine Charles with Sawh's murder, which happened three months after militant Black activist and television talk-show host Ronald Waddell was gunned down.
Waddel in 2005 was accused by the government of stirring up racial hatred between Indian-Guyanese supportive of the ruling Peoples Progressive Party, to which Sawh had belonged, and descendants of African slaves backing the main opposition People's National Congress Reform.
Sawh also served as Guyana's ambassador to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador from 1993 to 1996.
For more than 20 years, he lived in Canada where he got a degree in economics and business from Toronto's York University in 1982, and a certificate in accounting and business from Toronto's Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1978. | | | | Reads : 188 | | | |
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