Police yesterday said they have received no reports of persons being beaten during last Thursday’s PPP/C rally in Buxton and issued a call to the victims to come forward.
According to a press release “some time today [yesterday] the police received a report through the media that persons had been beaten at the Buxton rally held by the PPP/C at the Buxton Railway Embankment.”
The Guyana Police Force, the release said, wishes to state that it has received no such report “though this does not mean that the incident of beating may not have occurred”. The ranks on duty at the meeting also neither saw nor received any report of beatings.
The force calls on anyone who may have been the victim of any form of assault at the meeting to make a report to the nearest police station, the release added.
Supports of APNU turned up at the rally holding placards and shouting “Granger”, drowning out the voice of Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee who was speaking at the time.
Later it became a shouting match between APNU supporters and the supporters of the PPP/C, some of whom were wearing party t-shirts and waving flags.
After a while, a large section of the crowd began running in an easterly direction when rumour spread that APNU presidential candidate David Granger was nearby.
The crowd returned soon after realizing there was no Granger to meet them.
