THE RECENT ignominious discovery of the death pits brings home to me what I have been fearing all along...our nation is slowly bleeding to death. We should have expected the entire nation to lament when these things happen. Where is the voice of the various human rights lobby groups, the Amnesty International, the political directorate (all sides)? Why are the citizens in that area of that particular locale so silent? Whenever persons of questionable repute are killed by the police we find everyone jockeying for press coverage. We need to hear more than the tired knee-jerk reaction to resume hanging. What sort of signals are we sending to our children?
We were all horror stricken after the massacre of nearly 3,000 lives in the terrorist attack on the USA last September. Let us display a similar level of concern for the over 600 persons that have been murdered since the start of this year. Among the victims are the 13 policemen murdered, the two named and other nameless victims of the death pit in Mountain View Avenue, the two JUTC bus drivers who were savagely killed, the late chairman of Jamaica Dairy Farmers Association, the elderly couple slaughtered in St. Mary.
Let us collectively decide to stop this mayhem. If we do not act now, who knows, we might be the victims tomorrow.
