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Those responsible must be held accountable
Dear Editor,
It was a ghastly sight to see the burns on the private parts of the teenager on the front page of Kaieteur News.
The torture of the young man at the hands of police must be condemned in the strongest words possible and those responsible must be held accountable.
The act of these renegade police is inhumane especially that it is carried out on a youngster who may not have acquired much mental development of his actions if he were “tied up” with the crime committed at Canal.
Children should be treated as children. If the kid was involved in a crime, he should be held accountable for his actions. But wanton violence (setting him ablaze) should not be unleashed on a young lad.
While many victims of crime and others believe the law authorities should take necessary actions to control anti-social elements chronically addicted to criminal activities, torture of youngsters must be condemned. I bemoan such actions.
The physical torture will have a permanent effect on the kid impacting on his mental being for the rest of his life. In short, the torture of the kid at the hands of the police has ruined this boy’s life.
The act is gory, gruesome, appalling, barbaric, disgusting, brutal and shocking. People should be outraged. The state should intervene to bring justice. As such, I endorse any legal intervention to file actions against the police who perpetrated the act.
What kind of training are the police having that they can engage in such bestial behaviour?
I believe the Police Commissioner should take appropriate actions against the culprits and immediately seek to ‘humanise’ the police force. The high-handed actions and inhuman attitude of some police officers must end. The criminal elements among the police, about whom people complain continuously during my visits to Guyana, must be weeded out.
Vishnu Bisram
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