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Torture of lad by police signals time for supporters of the PPP to call for government’s resignation

Nov 02, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

On reading KN’s news story, “Torture,” (October 31), featuring a 14-year-old lad whose lower torso bore gruesome burn marks allegedly at the hands of police officers who were trying to determine the killer or killers of the former Region Three Vice Chairman, I have only one thing to say: it is time for the people of Guyana – whether PPP supporters or not – to agitate for the removal of the government.

When an Indian lad, who hails from the ethnic group that traditionally supports and votes PPP, suffers this kind of brutality at the hands of cops under a government supposedly belonging to the Indian-dominated PPP, it is time for all PPP supporters of that particular ethnic group to realise that the government’s apparent sanctioning of police brutality is not limited to members of the African or black community.

There is now a callousness that has come to characterize this government that it is difficult to ever find the humanity in it.

Again, this is a time for the people of Guyana to start the ball rolling to have a change of government, because no amount of apology or firing and charging of police officers will reverse or change the direction of this government, which is becoming worse than the Burnham regime, known for its own share of human atrocities.

And if the government charges these police officers in this new incident, then it owes victims of recent torture by state agents an apology and compensation and must have the torturers arrested and charged.

Emile Mervin

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