It was early on a Saturday morning that a 25-year-old woman ran screaming into a mining concession chased by a man who was beating her with a belt.
By the time she entered the mining concession her body bore several marks of violence from the belt and a piece of wood which the man, who had been her reputed husband for nine months, had used to beat her with. Several persons stood and looked on as she was being beaten, but no one went to her rescue.
The woman was from Lethem and had visited the Region Eight mining area with a friend when she met the man with whom she struck up a relationship. But before long he had become abusive and on the
