Chair of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Derrick John is maintaining that the complaints of rights violations in the Region Seven indigenous community of Isseneru should not have been referred to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
John, who had previously taken an identical stance in 2014, reiterated the view during a recent interview with Sunday Stabroek on the sidelines of the launch of Amerindian Heritage Month.
“This thing should not have reached the IACHR and we did not know that the village went there until after they did,” he said.