Georgetown
-A Partnership for National Unity (A.P.N.U) has demanded decisive action from the Ministry of Home Affairs to protect vulnerable women and girl children from sexual violence and murder. A.P.N.U protested particularly, the lack of action and poor official response to the rape of a five-year-old girl at Betsy Ground, East Canje on 23rd December last year and the rape-murder of a 66 year old woman of De Willem North, West Coast Demerara on 1st January 2012.
The Betsy Ground incident is not isolated. A.P.N.U has pointed out that the frequency of rape-murders highlighted how low the level of human security is, particularly for women and girl children, in rural areas of this country. These serious crimes have exposed the seeming inability of the PPP/C Administration and its law enforcement and social welfare services to comprehend the causes of the crisis. As a result, no policies have been put in place to ensure the safety of the country’s most vulnerable citizens – the very old and very young women.
The increasing number of reports of rape-murders over the last 10 years is frightening. These include the killing of a geriatric, blind, shut-in; the gruesome rape-murder of a 12-year-old school-girl and the vicious rape-murder of 75-year-old, all on Wakenaam Island. Other rape-murders include a woman on Leguan; a 17-year-old student at Naamryck; a woman of Johanna Cecilia; an 18-year-old waitress at Port Mourant; a 32-year-old woman at Maida and a 16-year-old schoolgirl at Warren, all on the Corentyne Coast.
You must be logged in to post a comment.