caribbean killing fields newsflash!!
i recall watching the highlights of this in horror thinkin dem big negroes in jamaica done lost dem minds
it’s six years aready since the jamaican govt engaged in mass slaughter in their hunt for dudus coke
A blogger friend in Guyana, Mark Jacobs, used this word in the context of a tragic event in his own country: The unsolved murder of a human rights activist just before the general elections of May 11, 2015.
Mark starts his latest blog post thus:
because you have choose to misremember, don’t think everyone else has
to know is pain
and your ignorance will not suffocate me
In the last few days, it has become increasingly apparent to me that Jamaica (and in particular local media) has chosen to misremember the massacre at Tivoli Gardens of May, 2010, in which at least 74 Jamaicans died. It has been six years, and clearly Jamaicans have exhausted their remembering capabilities; and perhaps for many, their compassion. Are we so inured to violence? Is the media so preoccupied with the “here and now” that it cannot stop and look back?
“Marjorie Hinds was…
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