Right to life must be made ‘unequivocal’ in constitution

-GHRA tells Linden inquiry

The constitution’s guarantee of the right to life of the individual must be unequivocal, according to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), which says the number of exceptions that allow for the use of deadly force have contributed to the “unacceptable levels of extra-judicial killings” committed by the police force.

This is according to the Paper Submission made by the GHRA’s Executive Committee to the Commis-sion of Inquiry into the July 18 protestor shootings at Linden, where Ron Somerset, Allan Lewis, and Shemroy Bouyea were killed