Hoyte was protesting extra-judicial killing - Clarke Stabroek News February 19, 2000 The decision by Leader of the PNC, Desmond Hoyte, to visit the viewing of the body of Linden 'Blackie' London at the Square of the Revolution on Wednesday, would have been a "calculated decision" according to General Secretary of the PNC, Oscar Clarke. Clarke, who was speaking to the press after a Mashramani conference at Congress Place yesterday noted that Hoyte was "not some loose cannon" and surmised that his "presence there would mean different things to different people." Clarke said that Hoyte was there to protest the extra-judicial killing of a citizen and had said so at the time. He noted that this was a free country where people were free to associate with whom they wished and that he did not know that London had been proven guilty of anything. The opportunity to find that out had been missed and that might have been deliberately so, Clarke said. As to the draping of the Guyana flag over London's coffin, Clarke said that the PNC could not condone such an action and speculated that those who had done that would not have thought it through.