Is Guyana a civilised country?

Nov 01, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I was shocked to read in Kaieteur News (31-10-09) about the brutal torture of that murder suspect. The police should use proper investigative tactics to solve crimes instead of torturing people to confess to a crime.
I must congratulate the Kaieteur News for publishing the photograph of the torture victim on its front page as that picture tells a million words.
Many people would say the picture was too gruesome to print but the Guyanese people and the world at large must see what this young man went through as words alone cannot convince people’s minds what torture is. That picture would make people feel what this young man went through.
The Home Affairs Minister and the Commissioner of Police should resign immediately because they are responsible for the administration of the police force and this torture and others were under their watch.
The policemen who carried out this torture should be suspended immediately and an investigation should be launched.
I hope the local Human Rights Organisations, opposition parties and lawyers take this matter up with International Human Rights Organisations, the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.
Only recently a Rwandan military person was sentenced to life imprisonment in a Quebec Court in Canada for human rights violations.
And in another case, the son of Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia was sentenced in a U.S court for torture he carried out in Liberia.
So those who administered and carried out torture in Guyana might get off in Guyana but can be prosecuted in a foreign court.
Is Guyana a civilized country?
Balwant Persaud

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