Documents of British Honduras reveal startling facts
Submitted by bluekonkas on Tue, 2009-03-17 13:38.
General
They cover a tumultuous period of our colonial days and normally we would not report on these but classified and secret documents have just been released of incidents that date back to 1967, 68 and 69. Some are by hand, others by typewriter and there are some in the form of telegrams. News Five today got copies of the documents and found some rather startling and interesting information on the state of affairs back then. Belize, then British Honduras, was under colonial rule and reporting was done to the Commonwealth Office. The Governor General was Sir John Paul. The voluminous documents cover a number of issues, some mundane and routine on finances, trials etcetera. But there is one confidential report that caught our eyes. It refers to the climate between 1967 and 1968, in which twenty incidents involving explosive devices occurred. According to the report dated August twenty-ninth, 1968 “it was a period of great tension and internal unrest in the territory with both political parties awaiting the outcome of the U.S. mediation and the Opposition party in particular, exacerbating the tension by spreading rumors that the British Honduras Government were planning a sell-out of the Guatemalans. “
That particular report describes two bomb attacks directed at the then Vice President of the Senate, Senator Courtenay, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Lindy Rogers. And according to the report, the attack on Courtenay was the work of prominent N.I.P. officials and in respect of Rogers, the colony asked for help from Scotland Yard to solve the matter and the recommendation made was that because of the political ramification it was best to have the prosecution of the case carried out locally. In the Courtenay bomb incident in December 1967, two persons were named: Sabino Savory and Dean Lindo of the N.I.P. And in the Rogers incident, Anthony Meighan from the P.U.P. was identified.
There is also one telegram sent second September 1966 from the Commonwealth Office to Sir John Paul in which the Mexican Government refused to meet with a group of four NIP officials who were in Mexico City quote “seeking to buy explosives with which to carry out terrorist acts in British Honduras”. There were other explosions at Holy Redeemer, the Guatemalan Consulate, the homes of Gwen Lizarraga, the Premier, and others, to name a few. And as we said at the top of the story, the documents provide an insight in the state of affairs more than forty years ago but had not yet been seen because they were classified top secret and kept far away by the Commonwealth.
must conFESS...
Submitted by Terminator on Wed, 2009-03-18 14:38.
...that as a YOUTH growing up in the e-70's i found d then hisSTORY BK 'Belize - A Junior History' interminably BORING...i felt that it missed d ESSENCE of LIFE as related 2 me by my paRENTS & gPARENTS...Although i wouldn't GO as far as 2 say that it was irRELEVANT, esp in hindSITE, it did avoid in TOTO d trueSTORY of my PEOPLES!!!
4 xMPL at d END of d last GREAT WAR when d BRITs elected 2 CREATE employment opportunities in AGRIC 4 d HOMIES returning HOME, they chose a PLACE called BAKING POT as d SITE of their reSEARCH & xPRMNTL statn...There was ONE prob with d LOCATION, at least from d standpoint of d LOCALs: They were LIVING there!!!...This was of NO reLEVANCE or conCERN 2 d COLONIAL MASTERs however WHOM simply TOOK 2 their BULL-DOZERS and PLOUGHED d HOMES into d GROUND and DROVE off MAN & bEAST into d WILDs of esPERANZE & GUACAMALLO passMOUTH (now georgeVILLE) & BARTON RAMY (now United Ville)!...There was NOT an utter of this CHAPTER of d hisSTORY of WHAT became known as CENTRAL FARM in d annals of any BOOK, or 4 that matter d FOREIGN PRESS or LOCAL MEDIA!!...But this was d 40's when d NATIVES were irRELEVANT and/or exPENDABLE!!!
The relevance of this verbal FORAY being that d nature of d STORY being tOLD depends on d PERSPECTIVE of d PARTY/IES telling d STORY...THUS d topDOWN perspective of d BRITs as they reported eVENTS of d GUAT intrigue was that a number of reBELLOUS opPOSITION operatives were seeking 2 deSTABILIZE d STATE by CRYING WOLF when there was no BOGIE MAN!!!...WHAT would perhaps b instructive 4 B-koncas 2 do would b 2 research WHAT d AMANDALA or billBOARD was saying at d TIME...AT that TIME d X was ANTI d estabLISHMENT and saw georgePRICE 4 what HE was...A fuKkin zERO and a SELL OUT 4 d GUATs...i BET d headlines in d AMANDALA would have read 'Nationalist HEROES attempt 2 rescue Bze from d CLUTCHES of COLONIALISM by X-posing HHMM 4 d GUAT TRAITOR that HE is'!!!...or WORDs 2 that effect!!!
THUS these THINGs that B-koncas dissCOVERED in assCROFT's archives r only reVEALING in xPOSN circumstances from d perspectives of d OPPRESSORS...Which paraDOXICALLY is NOT unlike d way they r at CHANNEL 5 wRITE NOW!!!
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