Dear Editor,
We the Guyanese population recently became aware of the horror stories of the Venezuelan women who fell prey to the hands of a sexual predator/monster.
Any sane-minded person will immediately have goosebumps upon reading such a monstrous story, what is more noticeable, as we are heading to celebrate International Women’s Day, is the deafening silence of our various women’s rights groups as well as the Guyana Human Rights body.
Not because the victims are Venezuelans or sex workers; at the end of the day they are also human beings and it is not for me or anyone else to debate about their chosen profession. The bottom line is they are humans are they also have basic fundamental rights too.
Editor, it would seem as though these various bodies would only find their voices so as to torment their political opponents. I stand to be corrected as I have not noticed any words of condemnation from them.
The Honorable Minister Dr Vindhya Persaud, who is a women’s advocate and also the President of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha along with the women’s arm of the ruling PPP Government, the WPO, are in a very strong position in ensuring that this monster/beast remains caged for a very long time as cages are where monsters belong.
It would be a wonderful sight to see those Opposition MPs who have suddenly become women’s advocates taking the lead here, their actions will tell if they truly have the public’s interest at heart or they have their own objective for their actions.
I sincerely hope that our Judiciary does the right thing and doesn’t allow this monster to walk free as we may very well have in the making our own version of Trinidad’s Andrea Bharrat.
It is anticipated that in the coming days there are going to be more startling revelations coming from other young ladies. To those persons that stood up to the monster in rescuing the young lady, kudos.
Sincerely,
Deonarine Jawahir
