(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Human rights organization ‘Allied Collective’ is dragging the State of Suriname before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights (ICHR) for what it calls the “probable summary execution” by the police of three notorious criminals and a fourth person at the Maretraite project in Tout Lui Faut Tuesday evening.
The complaint is being drafted and will be sent to the ICHR in two weeks’ time. Besides this case, two others will be submitted to the Court in which the police are also accused of “probable summary executions”. “The State should create a picture of law and justice and not of terror and violence,” says Robert Hewitt of ‘Allied Collective’. He refuses to divulge details about these three cases, but his main argument is that the police may only use force of arms to defend themselves. Tuesday’s four victims were unarmed. “The police may not create the impression that they will shoot suspects. Under the rule of law, a suspect should be considered innocent until proven guilty by the judge,” Hewitt says.
