Consistent carnage
published: Sunday | February 22, 2004
THE EDITOR, Sir:
YOUR LEAD story about the situation in Haiti has caused me to
ponder once more the high crime rate on the island. How much longer are we willing
to tolerate this consistent carnage?
In your article on Haiti, mention was made of the number of Haitians
who have been killed since the start of violent opposition to the Government,
that number being 56. Right below that story was another one in which it was
stated that 140 Jamaicans have been killed violently since the start of this
year.
In Haiti, there is outright armed opposition to the Government
and 56 people have been killed so far. In Jamaica, there is no open armed opposition
to the Govern-ment and 140 people have been killed since the start of this year
out of a population of about two and a half million people. I find that very
frightening. As a nation we have grown to tolerate this high degree of carnage.
Twenty-one years ago I became a victim of one of those violent
acts which ended in death by the gun a murder which was never solved.
