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Nov 05, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
My mentor said often, and he is so right, history repeats itself.
When I read of the horrible torture handed down to a young teenager by the police, I recall the role I played when influenced by this same PPP operatives, Mr. ‘Mannie’ Emanuel Fairbain-Batson was severely beaten by the police, just all the Freedom House explosion in 1964. He was held as a suspect.
At that time as happened now, the directorate refused to allow anyone neither to see Fairbain, nor to say where he was after his arrest. Information was leaked that he was badly beaten.
Shown how to use a camera, I along with a young lady posed as a ward orderly and nurse and got photos of Fairbain, who was a patient in ‘Room 2’ at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital. It was gruesome; his private parts had the size of a football and deep wounds.
We had to run to a vehicle driven by Herman Cobenna when the authorities discovered we had tricked them to get into the ward at the Mercy Hospital where he was held under heavy police guard. You see, for the people, nothing new.
Today, I am proud that I helped the public see what the State operatives did to a citizen and wished to hide. This torture is an exact repeat.
The PPP are the alleged victim, so the police pick up people, beat them mercilessly, hide their injuries, and only as now and then the cover up is exposed. We hear crocodile tears from the same quarter that said “a little roughing” is appropriate.
To my mind, the people who encourage the police ranks to carry out this form of “roughing up” ought to be charged
Same old story.
Eric Mosely

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