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GHRA dubs Crum-Ewing killing a political act

Mar 15, 2015 News

The shooting to death of Courtney Crum-Ewing on the night of Tuesday March 10, has sent a shock-wave through Guyanese society, fine-tuned as it is to detect political violence, said the Guyana Human Rights Association.
“Had he been physically attacked and his loud-hailer thrown into the trench, the matter would have caused a tremor, condemned as the work of low-level party zealots.  His assassination is another matter, challenging all Guyanese who believe in the right to peacefully express their own opinions.
‘The perception of killing as a political act is encouraged by the fact that at the time of his death Mr. Crum-Ewing was using a loud-hailer in the Diamond community on the East Bank, exhorting people to come out and vote in the upcoming general elections of May 11.
The GHRA added that Crum-Ewing had come to the attention of the public in recent months by virtue of his 80-day one-man vigil, calling for the resignation of the Attorney-General.
The murder has provoked extensive disgust because Crum-Ewing’s political activism, while singular, reflected widespread public repugnance over constant revelations of political sleaze, corruption and drug-trafficking, GHRA said.
“Courtney Crum-Ewing was murdered because he took freedom of expression seriously. When his persistent call for the resignation of the Attorney-General extended to exhorting others to also express themselves freely by casting their ballots, those who felt threatened were provoked to murder.”
There have been warnings that one should not conclude that the killing was politically motivated but GHRA stated that the killing “reveals dangerous levels of political intolerance at large in the society.”
The murder of Courtney Crum-Ewing might also be seen as the beginning of a process of manipulating ethnic insecurity aimed at people voting for ‘race’, rather than for their political convictions. These tactics have distorted Guyanese elections for the past sixty years, it added.

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