Dear Editor,
After reading the story and viewing the graphic scene of a human brutally beaten, then, from all appearances his lifeless body was about to be burned I was sick to the core. I immediately asked the question, have we as a society lost our soul? The persons who did this must be brought to justice. What happened in ‘B’ field Sophia is an indescribable act of barbarity. It is the most brutal form of man’s inhumanity to man. Under no circumstances can we condone such soulless vigilante justice. It is as if those who supposedly caught him in the act forgot that he is a human being and as such has the right to be tried in a court of law and duly punished for his crimes. But not the vigilante justice that was shown there. When a community can sink to such lows it speaks volumes about that community and the nation as a whole. I dare say also that what took place in Sophia is symptomatic of the new ‘mob justice’ sweeping over Guyana right now.
The point is, guilty or not, this is not how civilized society deals with wrongdoers. It is said that you can judge a society by the way it treats those who are on the straight and narrow, but it is equally true of the treatment of those who run afoul of the law. Sophia has some soulless people.
Yours faithfully,
Neil Adams
