Shortly after midnight on April 22nd, in the village of La Bonne Intention just east of the capital, Georgetown, a squad of masked gunmen, armed with assault rifles, burst into the home of Guyana's well-liked Indo-Guyanese agriculture minister, Satyadeow Sawh. He was shot dead, along with his sister, his brother, and an unarmed security guard. The killers took $115 and a cheap watch. The attack is being treated as a political assassination-the first in north or south America since 1993. President Bharrat Jagdeo described it as "an attempt to destabilise our democracy" ahead of this year's general election.
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