Human rights association condemns East Coast disturbances, police response

The scene after a section of the road at Nonpareil was blocked last Tuesday

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has added its voice to the condemnation of the criminal acts that were committed last Tuesday when persons took advantage of a protest over a police killing to rob, assault and terrorise stallholders, bus drivers and other bystanders along the East Coast.

“They should face condign justice,” the GHRA said on Saturday in a statement, where it also criticised the blocking of the main public road, which disrupted persons trying to go about their normal business on the East Coast, as well as the “violent and undisciplined” behaviour of the Joint Services both for the expansion of the protest along the East Coast and the terrorizing of the residents of Golden Grove village throughout the night of June 28.