Activists protest Chronicle over ‘inflammatory’ editorial

Activists Freddie Kissoon and Mark Benschop (third and fourth from right, respectively) among others protesting outside the Guyana Chronicle’s offices yesterday.

Rights activists Freddie Kissoon and Mark Benschop yesterday led a  protest outside the offices of the Guyana Chronicle, at Lama Avenue, Bel Air, over its publication of an editorial that they said could incite racism.

The July 2, 2012 editorial, ‘Opposition rampages to sow disunity in the country,’ was criticised by the Roman Catholic Church earlier this week and according to Kissoon, it harkened back to the racial strife