A society in destruction mode

Jun 06, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
I’ve been silent way too long due to other commitments of mine, but the pain, sorrow and grief is overwhelming, so I must speak. Guyana has been slowly deteriorating over the years since independence, and that fact is reflected in the many gaps in all sectors of the country and society.
Case in point, over the past five years or so, I’ve noticed an ever increasing number of violent homicides carried out by men on women/children. Every week there is at least one who meets her demise in a most horrible fashion. For this week alone there have been two in two days! If this doesn’t anger us Guyanese then I don’t know what will!
I have a habit of reading someone’s story and imagining what went on. I cringe while reading every article because the thought of being battered or stabbed repetitively, or drowning in my own blood after having my throat slit haunts me. To imagine the innocent child seeing his father coming at him or his mother with a knife is insufferable! To imagine the last suffering breath of these women and children and not get ANGRY is the greatest fright of all!
We as a people need to get angry, need to force the issue on this topic. Not only did we lose a valuable part of society, but we’ll now have more orphans, traumatized to say the least. We may have little boys of the bunch with an increased chance of hitting his wife and the little girl with increased chance of thinking that it’s ‘OK’ to be beaten.
I congratulate programmes such as Murundoi and those organizations that are carrying out priceless sensitization programmes that I think will help in our cause.
I think that the issue with women in abusive relationships is that they fail to see the commonality between their situation and the one where the woman was murdered. They think to themselves that ‘He’s not that crazy’ or ‘he’s not a murderer’. Most don’t see the signs until it’s too late. Murundoi is bringing out that point, beautifully.
I encourage all Guyanese to listen. However, more needs to be done. More social workers should be deployed into troubled communities; programmes where females that ‘made it out’ can interact with those that are still in it should be set up. Neighbours should get involved more in the issue of abusive relationships; policemen should be more stern and most importantly, the law should be unforgiving!
I’m a firm believer in corporal and capital punishment, but those are topics for another discussion.
Garfield Parker

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