Human rights activist and author Sukree Boodram lost her battle with cancer on Saturday morning.
Boodram’s sister, Nina Sattie Singh-Boodram, announced on Facebook that she died peacefully at around 3 am on Saturday with family at her bedside.
A survivor of domestic violence, Boodram, a US-based Guyanese wrote a book titled Breakout in which she described to the world the horrifying experiences she and her two children endured at the hands of a man they called husband and father. That was in 2010.