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Former Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo is named as a culpable party in the 1999 kidnapping and presumed murder of Franz Britton, aka Collie Wills.
A 2001 Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Report #80/01, Petition #12.264 identifies Jagdeo, along with Ronald Gajraj, former minister of Home Affairs; Laurie Lewis, former commissioner of the Guyana Police Force; and Leon Fraser, a former superintendent of the Guyana Police Force, as “responsible for Mr. Britton’s disappearance whilst in police custody.”
According to the report, on Jan. 25, 1999, Britton, a father of three children, was “re-arrested by Leon Fraser, the assistant superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department, headquartered at Eve Leary, Georgetown, Guyana.”
The report continues, “Mr. Britton was last seen in the company of Mr. Leon Fraser, superintendent of police, head of the dreaded “Black Clothes” police, and being bundled into a silver gray car, license plate number PGG 3412.” He hasn’t been seen since.
Full disclosure: I testified at the IACHR hearing on behalf of Britton, and at the behest of his mother, Irma Wills, in March 2000. Dr. Odeen Ismael, Guyana’s ambassador to the United States at the time, represented the government of the People’s Progressive Party.
Ex Guyanese Pres. named in 1999 kidnapping
This is an interesting development.
A 2001 Organization of American States, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Report #80/01, Petition #12.264 identifies Jagdeo, along with Ronald Gajraj, former minister of Home Affairs; Laurie Lewis, former commissioner of the Guyana Police Force; and Leon Fraser, a former superintendent of the Guyana Police Force, as “responsible for Mr. Britton’s disappearance whilst in police custody.”
According to the report, on Jan. 25, 1999, Britton, a father of three children, was “re-arrested by Leon Fraser, the assistant superintendent of police of the Criminal Investigation Department, headquartered at Eve Leary, Georgetown, Guyana.”
The report continues, “Mr. Britton was last seen in the company of Mr. Leon Fraser, superintendent of police, head of the dreaded “Black Clothes” police, and being bundled into a silver gray car, license plate number PGG 3412.” He hasn’t been seen since.
Full disclosure: I testified at the IACHR hearing on behalf of Britton, and at the behest of his mother, Irma Wills, in March 2000. Dr. Odeen Ismael, Guyana’s ambassador to the United States at the time, represented the government of the People’s Progressive Party.
Ex Guyanese Pres. named in 1999 kidnapping
This is an interesting development.
