A section of the crowd that gathered!
Rohee: With the advent of the 1997 elections, Mrs Jagan became the Presidential Candidate of the PPP/C and won the elections, receiving a larger percentage of the votes than in the elections of 1992.
But it was to be one of the most painful periods in her political life, and that of the Party…If the 1950s and 1960s had their difficulties for her and the PPP, the 1997 to 1999 period was even more testing. It was during that period that the vilest and wickedest forms of protest, including public recourse to obeah, political manoeuvers and subterfuge, were used to dislodge her from office, eventuating in the reduction of her term by two years.
This undoubtedly contributed to her illness…But she bore the indignity with dignity, the insult with courage, and the gamut of indecency with resilience…Such was the nature of the woman!
For a woman who struggled all of her life for the advancement of our country, its people and for future generations to have been treated in that manner, the only decent thing for those who are guilty of these acts to do would be for them to offer her, even in death, an apology in their quiet moments for what they did to her while she was alive.
But it was to be one of the most painful periods in her political life, and that of the Party…If the 1950s and 1960s had their difficulties for her and the PPP, the 1997 to 1999 period was even more testing. It was during that period that the vilest and wickedest forms of protest, including public recourse to obeah, political manoeuvers and subterfuge, were used to dislodge her from office, eventuating in the reduction of her term by two years.
This undoubtedly contributed to her illness…But she bore the indignity with dignity, the insult with courage, and the gamut of indecency with resilience…Such was the nature of the woman!
For a woman who struggled all of her life for the advancement of our country, its people and for future generations to have been treated in that manner, the only decent thing for those who are guilty of these acts to do would be for them to offer her, even in death, an apology in their quiet moments for what they did to her while she was alive.
Even if an apology was forthcoming I would not want it, Cde Rohee I have to disagree with you, Cde JJ was never a hypocrite and she would not welcome shallow overtures, and would not request it, she was bigger, larger than that, those misguided souls that uttered those invectives and displayed those childish symbols are rotting on a composte heap of neva to be remembered, and the others are swaying in the wind of notoriety . WE DO NOT NEED THEIR APOLOGY, THE DAMAGE IS DONE, FINITO, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER.
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