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The rules of engagement in the March 19 elections have determined that the PPP/C should form the government. That is exactly what has happened.
PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo is on record as calling for a dialogue with Mr. Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Leader of the Opposition People's National Congress Reform (PNC/R) since 1999.
It is with great regret that the dialogue could only have started on April 24, 2001, almost two years after it was first requested. But the dialogue, too, did not happen until the usual post-elections violence perpetrated against innocent Guyanese by criminal elements among the PNC/R protesters, had made its mark.
These criminal elements were disavowed as PNC/R protesters by Congress Place headquarters.
However, the fact that the violence unleashed by the 'dogs of war', was committed amid the protests and in a climate of instability well orchestrated by the PNC/R, most certainly places the responsibility for these atrocities solely on the shoulders of the PNC/R.
To date, Hoyte has not, on his own, denounced the post-elections violence perpetuated on innocent victims.
In fact, a tally of these victims will demonstrate that they are both African and East Indian Guyanese. But, again, as in previous situations, East Indian Guyanese felt the full force of these attacks as victims of murder, physical assault and robbery more than any other ethnic groups.
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