Complaints of torture are just too many and must be checked

Nov 10, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The picture in the Kaieteur News: October 31st, of the tortured 14-year-old boy by the police was most outrageous, left nothing to the imagination, and enraged the Nation and support fully the saying, “a picture is worth a 1000 words”.
It brought about the desired effect. It is for this reason I stand in support of publishing photographs of people who have fallen victims at the hands of gruesome acts.
See, I hold the view that the picture, disturbing as it may be, is a result of the act in itself, while I do agree that there would be times when our decency and delicate senses/feelings for/of relatives would dictate exception to the rule.
Why should those who are committing all kinds of cruelties in the most brazen way without any kind of remorse, remain sheltered by not having the evidence of their sick minds exposed?
Even if some may be incapable of guilt/shame, still, let their actions – though painful to decent folks – be revealed for all to see what we have become.
In looking at this torture picture, I couldn’t help asking myself, just what the heck is going on, and immediately once again remember the words of Barrington Braithwaite: “the system had captured troubled, unbalanced personalities and created soulless mass murders out of them”.
And this we are witnessing. Torture by the state police is now a regular occurrence which appears to be standard operations. Just the other day we were almost petrified and lamenting what the Coast Guards had done to Ramdass.
Now on the heels of it we are presented with yet another horrific act that has disturbed the conscience of the Nation.
These complaints of torture are just too many and must be checked, since these abuses are not in any way bridging the wide bitter gap between the Joint Services and the people. But this pattern of beating/torturing has a double negative effect: it gradually transfers the executors into monsters, psychopaths, while similarly demonizing the young victims, and God knows, we have more that our fair share of man-child criminality. The Police Commissioner and the Home Affairs Minister must be mindful that public confidence in the Joint Services has been erased.
But I need to ask: are these torturers done because of love of the job with the sole intention of finding the real guilty ones, or is it that individuals are being paid outside of salary just to get a confession? Whatever, why are the victims invariably poor working folks.
Frank Fyffe

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