Calling for justice for this 14-year-old child

Nov 02, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

As a mother I was shocked and saddened when I saw the photograph that was published in Kaieteur News of a 14-year-old child tortured by the policeþ at Leonora Police Station.

I can imagine the ordeal that his poor parents were going through. It makes matters worse of not knowing where your child is. The ranks had them going from one police station to the next without disclosing his whereabouts.

In such a serious condition the child needed serious medical attention to the severe burns to his genitals and other injury he sustained by the police.

We must not sit idly by and allow those responsible for this cruel act to be ignored, like the many others that experience the same ordeal.

The perpetrators must be identified and held accountable for their actions. What would it take for others to speak out on matters like this? The PNCR did, by exposing bodily harm to human being by the police department without any justice.

The Hon. Ms Prya Manickchand, Minister of Human Service, has claimed that her Ministry has a programme to protect children.

Where was the Minister protection for this child? Or does this child have no rights. Or the bigger question to you Minister Prya Minickchand, would you keep silence on this matter like you did with Kwame sex tape scandal?

Or like the separation and ill treatment Mrs Jagdeo (First Lady) received from the President? This Minister should resign because you are noting more than lip service to the people.

I recall several press statements and picketing exercises conducted by the PNC calling on the Government for an inquiry on several persons who were tortured and went through similar ordeals. Just to mention a few, Victor, Jones, Patrick Summer, Alvin Wilson, Michael Dunn and others.

The Government later then decided to have the inquiry done; the inquiry was conducted by the same department who was responsible for the torture.

To make matters worse the President told the Nation that the investigation into the torture was completed and he will present the report to the Nation but this was never done until this day.

My dear editor, I read several articles calling Burnham a dictator. I live to see this PPP/C Government who claimed that they will do better if they were elected to office. That has been a reality since 1992 and it has been hell for the Guyanese people since.

The 17 years of the PPP/C in office, Jageo held 10 years as President and that 10 years will go down in record for what the world has seen Guyana to be today. Guyana is now viewed as a country of corruption, deception, racism, decimation and above all drug smugglers.

This is unacceptable and the Government should be held accountable. This is why the Government is refusing any assistance to the crime spree in Guyana and now everyone knows why the UK withdrew from Guyana. This matter of torture should be reported to the UN on Human Rights.

I wonder what excuse the Government, the Minister of Human Service, Henry Greene and Minister Rohee have for this 14-year-old child torture?

B. Beniprashad Rayman

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