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Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« on: January 26, 2008, 08:51:45 PM »
GEORGETOWN - Gunmen shot and killed 11 people, including five children, early on Saturday in a village in Guyana, a small South American country where gang violence is on the rise.

President Bharrat Jagdeo said the leaders of the massacre in the village of Lusignan, 11 miles east of the capital Georgetown, were linked to gunmen who attacked police headquarters in Georgetown on Friday night.

"These are animals and we have to hunt them down," Jagdeo said in a news conference broadcast on state television.
The government sent police and troops to the area to capture the gunmen and restore public order after angry residents protested the killings by blocking roads.

Jagdeo said the gang members were seeking to "spread terror" on Guyana's eastern coast and the killings were an attempt to inflame ethnic tensions between African and Indian Guyanese.

"The nature of this incident, carried out by unknown and reckless gunmen, (could) seriously affect the stability (of) race relations in Guyana," Robert Corbin, leader of Guyana's opposition parties, said in a statement.

Guyana has suffered from ethnic tension between populations of African and Indian descent and has struggled to contain rampant violence by roving gangs often linked to drug trafficking.

Gang members fired indiscriminately at police headquarters on Friday night, though no injuries were reported.

Officials say gang leader Rondell Rawlins has threatened to attack police installations after accusing them of kidnapping his girlfriend.

But the government has made no official statement linking Rawlins to the Lusignan killings.

Gunmen and troops on Wednesday exchanged gunfire in Buxton, also near Georgetown. One soldier was killed and another was wounded.

Police and the army urged people to avoid roads in the area of Lusignan while they restored order.

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Re: Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2008, 08:53:52 PM »
people like they gone crazy this day and age yes
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Re: Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2008, 07:56:29 PM »
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Re: Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2008, 08:09:16 PM »
ah wonder if TnT ready for something like dat ?
ya know how we like to play copy cat ?

watch and allyuh go see bull *hit jus now >:(

why dey children boy....why ???
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Re: Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2008, 08:56:10 AM »
madness. it sound like this gangster vex, vex, vex with the govt or he is a soldier for some group trying to destabilize the country.

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Re: Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2008, 08:02:30 PM »
ah wonder if TnT ready for something like dat ?
ya know how we like to play copy cat ?

watch and allyuh go see bull *hit jus now >:(

why dey children boy....why ???
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that might be the last straw before d security minister finally get kick out
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Re: Gunmen kill 11 in Guyana village massacre
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2008, 10:31:31 PM »
BANO that iz madness  :devil:
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« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2008, 07:57:56 PM »
The Americas

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Sun, sea and murder

Jan 31st 2008 | PORT OF SPAIN
From The Economist print edition
Here, too, drug-trafficking is to blame

ELEVEN people, including five children, were shot dead in Guyana last weekend when unidentified gunmen went on the rampage in the village of Lusignan. A couple clung to their 11-year-old grand-daughter as bullets were pumped into them; a little boy clutched his mother's night-dress as she tried to crawl under her bed. Furious villagers later set up barricades, demanding protection and justice.

Police suspect it was the work of a gang acting on the orders of Rondell “Fineman” Rawlins, Guyana's most wanted man with a $150,000 bounty on his head. He is said to blame the government for the disappearance eight days earlier of his pregnant girlfriend, on her way to the nearby capital of Georgetown to give birth. But racial hatred provided the target. Like Guyana's government and half the population, Lusignan is mostly ethnic Indian, while Rawlins and his gang are ethnic Africans.

Many of Guyana's neighbours suffer even worse violence. Indeed, the Caribbean, better known for its blue skies, cricket and rum punch, is the world leader in violent crime. According to a joint UN-World Bank study last year, it has a murder rate of 30 per 100,000 inhabitants—four times the North American figure and 15 times the West/Central European average.

Jamaica is the world's most murderous country, followed by El Salvador, Guatemala and Venezuela. But some smaller Caribbean islands are catching up fast, irrespective of size or wealth. Pretty little St Kitts, with just 40,000 inhabitants, suffered three murders in four days last November. The prosperous Bahamas are far more dangerous than impoverished Guyana. In Trinidad and Tobago, the murder rate has quadrupled over the past decade, despite a fall in unemployment from 18% in 1994 to 5% last year.

The common factor behind this violence is the illegal drugs trade, which provides gangs with cash and weapons. But the link with narcotics is not simple. Since the 1990s, cocaine shipments in the Caribbean have stabilised while murder rates have soared. Suriname, no slouch in the drugs business, has the region's safest streets. Violence surges when gang politics are unsettled. Fights break out over turf, bad debts or deals gone sour. Rivalries peak when supplies run dry, and when arrests or deaths create a leadership vacuum.

More than 6m tourists visited the English-speaking Caribbean last year. Few ran into serious trouble. Most of the bullets hit young working-class men with the wrong networking skills, or their families and neighbours. But armed robbery, ending sometimes in murder, has a wider social reach. In some islands, a climate of fear curtails everyday routines. Many Jamaicans no longer risk a night-time drive to Kingston's airport. Catholic churches in Trinidad have moved their Christmas midnight mass to an earlier hour.

Public reaction varies. Crime barely featured in last year's elections in the Bahamas and Jamaica, nor is it an issue in Belize's current campaign. But in Trinidad and Guyana, political polarisation has brought calls for get-tough policies such as “zero tolerance”, the enforcement of the death penalty, and the imposition of a state of emergency. The region's prisons are already crowded. Of 31 countries with more than three out of every thousand citizens behind bars, 17 are in the Caribbean.

Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados are now strengthening their coastguards to choke the influx of drugs and guns—though this may simply force the drug barons to shift their trade elsewhere. On land, where police services are creaky and their staff sometimes corrupt, reform is under way, but will be a long haul. Even when arrests are made, it can be years before the culprits are brought to trial. Removing the glamour of gangland crime for the region's disaffected youth will take even longer.
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