The Guyanese Organisa-tion of Indigenous Peoples (GOIP) in a release has deemed the deafening silence by state funded groups such as the Indigenous Peoples Com-mission, Women’s and Gender Commission, Rights of the Child Commission and National Toshaos’ Council on the recent murder of 17-year-old Theiana Andrews as most appalling.
“Two weeks have passed and the murderer… apparently hasn’t been brought to justice,” the organisation said.
According to the GOIP, if trends of the past 21 years since the brutal murder of Monica Reece are anything to go by, it is gravely concerned this latest in a string of grisly murders, of which several young indigenous females make up a high percentage of victims, may also join the list of unresolved crimes.
The organisation said it has sent condolences to the relatives of Andrews and noted that the beastly violation of the minor’s right to life in her own home and village had implications for the lack of children’s safety in other indigenous communities.
Andrews of Moraikobai, Mahaicony was fatally shot on December 26 by a spurned lover. She had shared a short relationship with the man who worked as a tractor operator with a logger at Yarida, a few miles away from her home village
The suspect, Chris (only name given) who is still on the run, used a 12-gauge unlicensed shotgun that reportedly belonged to his employer, in the fatal attack.
