Stating that it was concerned that extrajudicial killings continue to occur, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) yesterday called on the government to set up a Commission of Inquiry into such deaths during the period of 2002 to 2006.
Extrajudicial killings was one of the topics that Guyana had been grilled on during the consideration of its periodic report by the Geneva, Switzerland-based Committee on the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights from March 18 to 20.
In its concluding observations issued yesterday, the Committee said it is concerned by reports that extrajudicial killings continue to be carried out in the State party, including by the police force.