Oliver Tambo and Forbes Burnham - Nothing in Common

I simply refuse to believe and/or accept intelligent people – Guyanese at that – would be so aroused as to petition South Africa’s African National Congress demanding the Oliver Tambo award for Forbes Burnham.
Firstly, it is apparent that the people of ANC who are responsible for awarding the Oliver Tambo award did not do their homework. If they did; they would have realized that Forbes Burnham and his illegal PNC regime did business with the apartheid government of South Africa. Thus, Forbes Burnham and members of his illegal PNC are ineligible for such an award.  
Oliver Tambo and Forbes Burnham had little or nothing in common. Oliver Tambo and Forbes Burnham were two different people with different agenda and different support system and sources of support.  Tambo and Burnham are long dead. The award is meaningless to either man. Oliver Tambo was Black Nationalist intent in bringing down the apartheid regime in South Africa and replacing that illegal regime with the legitimate government of African National Congress. Forbes Burnham was a Machiavellian manipulator.  Burnham was playing both sides of the coin.  Never mind the contributions Burnham and his illegal regime made to the African liberation struggles in Southern Africa, Burnham did business with South Africa. That’s a fact.
Tambo was fighting an illegal regime in South Africa. Burnham was leading an illegal regime in Guyana. Burnham exhibited numerous characteristics of a despot. Burnham was a tyrant.
Oliver Tambo is not known to be linked to the deaths and/or suffering of African peoples anywhere on earth. Certainly, no notable African died as a result of Tambo’s aspirations and unsavory actions.
I don’t have a problem or issue with Burnham receiving the Dingane-Mhlangana-Mbopa Award on Sunday, September 22, 2013, and /or on September 22 of any year.
It is criminal to even begin to think of creating an East Coast Demerara 1823 martyrs’ award to hand it to Burnham. Telemachus and the other heroes of the East Coast Demerara Rebellion and the shareholders and joint proprietors of the African communities of the East Coast would be very offended by such an affront.