The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has again called for all clauses which dilute the constitutional right to life to be removed from the Constitution and for the systematic removal of justification for violence from specific legal statutes.
This is in the wake of two vigilante killings last week, in Sophia and Berbice of two men suspected of petty larceny. The GHRA said in a release that the cold, cruel and apparently calculated killings have rightly generated widespread revulsion.
The government through the medium of the Ministry of Home Affairs, has reminded citizens that “while it is recognised that citizens have a right to defend themselves and their property”, this must only be done “in collaboration with the
