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Ant nest victim…The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform has said that it expects no delay in the investigation into recent allegations of torture by two Wakenaam residents.At its weekly press conference held yesterday at Congress Place the party demanded that an urgent and impartial investigation be launched into these allegations.“The Party does not expect that,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, the tactic of delay and prevarication which characterised the approach to previous allegations of torture by the Joint Services would be adopted, in this case,” the PNCR said in a statement.Ryan Gordon and Mitchell Thomas,Wholesale Jerseys, have alleged that they were tortured by the Joint Services, during a raid for narcotics, last Sunday on the island of Wakenaam.Gordon had told this newspaper that ranks of the Joint Services held him by his pants and dragged him along the road.He was also slapped in the face several times and forced to lie on his belly and crawl along the road.Further, members of the Joint Services placed a piece of wood on his shoulders and stood on him for several minutes before putting the barrel of a gun in his ear.Thomas,Cheap Jerseys From China, a part time labourer, alleged that he was made to lie on a nest of ants for several minutes.The Commissioner of Police and the Minister of Home Affairs have both given the assurance that this matter would be investigated, in light of the fact that both Gordon and Thomas gave detailed statements to the police.The Party reiterated its previous call for a thorough independent investigation into all allegations of torture, by members of the Joint Services.The Party said that it wishes to remind the administration that, on previous occasions, when torture was alleged by Patrick Sumner and Victor Jones and by members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), an internal investigation was only launched into the allegations made against the ranks of the GDF.“The GDF,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, therefore, has an outstanding obligation to investigate the allegations of torture made by Patrick Sumner and Victor Jones,” the PNCR said.“The PNCR would not cease its call for an independent and impartial investigation into all of these allegations of torture, since it has become evident that the culture of torture has become institutionalised within the operations of the Joint Services,Nike Shox Clearance,” the party added.Yesterday Mitchell Thomas gave a detailed statement to the police at Eve Leary.According to a source,Cheap Jerseys, the fact that he was sent away without being allowed to participate in an identification parade is a sign of delaying tactic on the part of the investigators, since it would require him to travel all the way from his home in Leguan for such a purpose. |
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