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August is generally regarded as the month of sunshine, trips to the creeks, Bar-B-Ques and overseas vacations. But for the past six years, August represents a period of deep sorrow and reflection.It was in the month of August that a marauding gang of vicious, misguided and illiterate youths stormed the Eccles, East Bank Demerara  printery of this newspaper and slaughtered five employees.Chetram Persaud, Eion Wegman, Richard Stewart, Mark Maikoo and Shazeem Mohamed were all ordered to lie face down and shot at point blank range at the back of their heads, in what can be described as a ritualistic slaughter.Many would readily recall the Agricola, Lusignan and Bartica massacres – events which have left an indelible stamp of criminality in Guyana.But how many recall the horror endured by the families, friends and colleagues of those five pressmen who paid the ultimate price to protect press freedom in these parts of the world.Never before has there been such an attack on the press locally and the deaths of the five Kaieteur News pressmen should serve as the catalyst to ensure that press freedom remains sacrosanct.Last year, Senior Reporter Dale Andrews gave a vivid recollection of the events of August 8, 2006.Such was the impact of his account that we have decided to repeat a significant part of it:-“I have witnessed the slaying of criminals, some in the most brutal ways,wholesale jerseys china, and the slaughter of innocent civilians.I have seen the slaughter at Buxton when ‘Baby Arthur’ went berserk,Adam Loewen Canada Jersey, the massacre at Lusignan of 11 persons and yet none of them hit me with the force that the slaying of my colleagues did.In all the other mentioned cases I was compelled to take photographs of the scene but on August eight,NFL Jerseys Outlet From China, 2006,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply, for some strange reason, I could not bring myself to even take out my camera from its case.The 2011 anniversary passed without a word of the killing, and while it appears as if we had forgotten, I have concluded that that was deliberate as none of us who were employed with the company on August 8th 2006 and are still with the newspaper today, wanted to bring up the subject.But we could not remain silent for long and soon the memories of what happened on that fateful day came vividly back to me.It was in the height of the crime wave that had begun four years prior, and that night I left the office to go up to Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara to investigate a shooting incident between gunmen who were holed up in that village and members of the security forces.In hindsight, I brought myself to think that that was a decoy, for when all the mayhem was taking place on the East Bank, the absence of the security forces was quite conspicuous.While on the East Coast, I had gathered the information for my story and excited I contacted the newspaper Editor, who at the time was Gwen Evelyn, to tell her that I had the major story for the day.To this day I still remember her response to me: ‘Boy you better leave that story and come back to the office.’‘Why? I asked incredulously.‘You ain’t hear? They go in the press and kill all the pressmen,’ was Gwen’s reply.I remember my feet getting very light and driving becoming very difficult after hearing those words.I did not ask who were killed and assumed that my good friend Harry was among the dead.As it turned out, Harry along with the security guard was the only survivor of the massacre.He later told me that while all of them had secured themselves in a toilet when the gang stormed the facility, he was the only one who remained inside when the gunmen ordered them out.He related that the others had complied with the gunmen’s request thinking that they were only going to be robbed and then left alone. They were dead wrong.Harry said that he watched through a crease in the door and saw his colleagues’  “feet jumping”, with each passing gunshot as the life was snuffed out of them.I could only imagine how he felt after the men had left and he emerged to see his five workmates lying dead only a few feet from where he was hiding.I could also only imagine how those workers who turned up late for work that night must be feeling.While returning to the city I tried to imagine the scene, since our office was separate from that location.Upon arrival there I was greeted by employees whose demeanour I still cannot describe to this day. My boss Glenn Lall was livid and could not hold back the tears.However he remained steadfast that we print the newspaper for that day.When I entered the pressroom, the bodies of the five press men were still lying on the ground and there was the overwhelming.No one went home that night; we all stayed until day clean, obviously in shock of what had transpired. I doubt that any one of us who were there could have slept that night. But we all returned to work the next day, defiant in the face of the adversity that could have flattened us.I guess we all took strength from the publisher, who despite his obvious feeling of loss, remained steadfast in his approach to the entire episode.The days that followed were like a dream,cheap nfl jerseys, with funeral after funeral to be attended.When it was all over we buckled down to see what the police will come up with in the form of justice for our fallen heroes.Soon enough a number of persons from the Agricola community were arrested and their ages were a shock to almost everyone.One of the alleged killers was no more than 13 years old, while none of them was above 18.What struck me was the fact that the 13-year-old, of all the accused, showed absolutely no remorse.He and two others were eventually committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murders.Incidentally,wholeslae cheap nfl jerseys china, the reported gang leader Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles who was also facing the court was killed after his short lived escape from lawful custody.As for the publisher of the Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall, nothing will erase the memories of that tragic night.‘I never got over it and I don’t think that anyone who experienced what I experienced could forget such a tragedy. It will be a lasting sore within me. Every now and again I remember. These were not employees, they were more like family,World Baseball Classic Jerseys 2017, the Kaieteur News family,’ Lall said.‘My heart goes out to their loved ones and from time to time I will offer them words of comfort. It is sad and hard for their loved ones and I hope they are holding up, and they should take comfort that their relatives did not die in vain,’ the publisher added.To date no one knows the real motive for the killings but it is widely viewed as a direct attack on the freedom of the press.Today, the entire staff of Kaieteur News as well as those former staff members who had shared that painful moment will remember those who paid the ultimate price for the maintenance of the free press.”May their souls rest in peace!