What a cost when, in a most gruesome manner, seventeen individuals lost their lives as a result of having been taken into custody by a society that promised to safeguard all their other freedoms apart from their right to liberty.
Then the government, in its now accustomed fashion, hurried to establish a commission of inquiry, only to be told by more than one of the people who are familiar with this matter that its effort has been a waste of time and that what is required is the implementation of the recommendations found in the many previous studies, inquiries, etc.
Of course, while of some substance, it appears to me that this broad denial of the need for an inquiry can only be partially true as it speaks to past events but the inquiry is also expected to ‘investigate, examine and report on the causes, circumstances and conditions that led to the fatal disturbances and any other subsequent disturbances. It will also inquire