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Is Trinidad and Tobago's democracy under attack? Well 1990 coup survivor, Wendell Eversley believes it is, and he's urging all like-minded people to stand up and speak out, in defence of our democracy. Rynessa Cutting reports.
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00:00In China and Tobago, we must not be living in fear. We must not be living in fear. I'm saying
00:06it again. 1990, we see where our democracy was under attack by guns. And in 2026, we see where our
00:16democracy is attacked by a state emergency.
00:30Every generation have a duty to defend our democracy. This is our generation, too. This is not about politics. This
00:42is about protecting Trinidad and Tobago.
00:56Trinidad and Tobago, our democracy is under threat. And I'm calling on every person who has a social media platform.
01:06This is a time, a state of emergency must not be a state of silence.
01:11Use your social media platform, whatever platform you have, and let us defend our democracy.
01:17The 36th anniversary of the attempted coup is on Monday, the 27th of July, 2026.
01:26I will be walking from 5 a.m. to the eternal flame here. Also, for the first time, 10 former
01:36members of parliament who was held and stayed in that parliament chamber, along with me, will be here 10.30
01:43a.m. at our weekly ceremony.
01:54Over 24 persons were killed. The people who suffered in TTT, the parliament chamber, they invited them also, because on
02:02that day was the darkest period of our country.
02:05The Honourable Prime Minister, the Honourable Prime Minister, I said last year, that this year, we will have an official
02:12Memorial Day, in a way where the country would know. And here it is today, we're hearing nothing.
02:20Why do you feel as though there appears to be some effort to obscure the events of that day?
02:27Because as a PNMG problem, you can see not the solution. That answers it. Because both of them probably know,
02:34have prior knowledge.
02:55She think, uh...
02:55she sing with him, she laughed with him,
02:57she cried with him.
02:59She was at his side
03:01when he, in his last moment
03:03when he was at the nursing home
03:05in St. James's.
03:07And hear now, we are the're the ones who stand up
03:09for the darkest period of our country, history.
03:13And say, they are torturers, they are murderers, attacked with whole force.
03:16Willing to give his life
03:18to protect China and Tobago democracy and our Prime Minister is silent our Prime Minister cannot
03:25tell China and Tobago today if she's going to support in dismantling the International Criminal Court
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