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Jul 28, 2008 Letters

Dear Editor,
I respond to Lurlene Nestor’s letter in Kaieteur News of 25-07-08, captioned, “Will these circumstances ever be revealed?”

You asked how this convicted prisoner Edwin Niles came to have seven rounds of .22 rounds of ammunition in his person at the prison.

I think the prisoner said he found it at the army camp in a pair of pants that did not belong to him but wore the pants anyway.

If you and I don’t believe that, would you expect the prison authorities to believe that? 
You asked: Who instituted the deadly beating on Niles? Was it the police, prison authorities, or army personnel?

You jumped on the police, prison authorities and army personnel but never once suspected that it could be other prisoners that tortured him before police got to him.

The President claimed that his administration does not sanction torture and you ought to believe that.
One important fact you refused to mention is the jail break of five deadly criminals.

So whenever the prison authorities find ammunition on any criminal in prison, that criminal must pay the ultimate price.

The prison authorities must see it one way and one way only, it’s either them or us.
Who do you think will win out in the end when prison authorities see it that way?

Do you expect the prison authorities to give a convicted criminal a pat on the shoulder along with a gold medal and praise that criminal for having ammunition in the prison?

So the President and this administration have absolutely nothing to do with torture as you claimed.
It’s very simple as one, two, three. Niles broke the law and should have known better not to try smuggling ammunition in the prison.

Do not let your heart bleed for convicts like Niles.
Remember we have Lusignan, Bartica and Lindo Creek massacres to bleed about. Is the President and his regime as you called it responsible for those too?

T. King

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