Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah is warning of many more incidents like last Thursday’s Beetham protest because of inequality and unfairness in soceity.
Commenting on the Beetham Gardens violent protest last Thursday during a press conference at MSJ’s San Fernando headquarters yesterday Abdulah said the MSJ does not condone acts of violence against citizens “so we certainly don’t condone people throwing stones at persons vehicles.”
Abdulah added, “At the same time, however, that we do not condone that activity we also do not condone the kind of disparaging statements made about the residents of the Beetham by persons in society who themselves are not exemplars.”
So that there are politicians who they attack persons on the Beetham who over the years have used and abused those residents as vote banks rather than developing the community and developing those citizens of those communities.
“There are also person in the national community who, as business people, refuse to employ people from the Beetham because on their application letter they put as the location of their home as a resident of the Beetham and therefore they get discriminated against and they get exploited on that basis.”
He said unless and until economic policies that generate fair and equitable opportunities for every single citizen of this country are implemented there will be many more incidents like last Thursday’s protest. “Unless and until we get a fair, just and equitable society we are going to get these explosions of anger and pain and frustration. We don’t condone violence but we can see the factors that generate this kind of behaviour,” Abdulah said.
He added that those who controlled economic and political power from Independence to now have failed this country.