To: Hon.
J. Hodo Manston/Cofounder/Acting Chair/Marylanders in Monrovia
Allen N. Yancy,
III/Cofounder/Chair/Legal Funds Committee/Marylanders in Monrovia
Dr. Togaba Nah
Tipoteh/PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE/Republic of Liberia-2011
Mohammed Nassar/President/FLY
Hon. T. Nma-Mle
Collins/President/Kudemoweh Development Assn.
Hon. Landry Wah Bedell/Elder/S.
K. Bedell Family Reunion in Liberia
Louise
Thomas Mapleh/Prominent Marylander
FROM: Thomas G. Bedell/Victim of Police Brutality
DATE: August 2, 2012
SUBJ: INFORMATION ON POLICE BRUTALITY &
REQUEST FOR HELP
Dear Honorable Lady & Gentlemen: I trust you are
enjoying the grace of God and doing well with your varied responsibilities.
This letter officially informs you of my misfortune in
Pleebo, Maryland County, resulting from police brutality. Thus, I seek your
financial assistance to support litigation. I intend to litigate in the
Liberian court of competent jurisdiction. If I am displeased with the way my
case is handled, I shall go forth to an ECOWAS court of competent jurisdiction.
This is all about justice; no more, no less!
Be advised on June 29, 2012, The Liberia National Police
Emergency Response Unit (ERU) physically & psychologically me in the city
of Pleebo (commercial capital) Maryland County. It brutally assaulted and
violated my physical person. It treated me violently as though I were a runaway
slave in a pool of my own blood. I was verbally abused, teased, mocked and
jailed for 24 hours in Pleebo on the order s of Magistrate Wesley Korkor,
supposedly on grounds of a “Contempt of Court” that was issued by another
Magistrate by the name of Hon. A. Boyee Nma.
Due to the physical, medical and psychological damage
inflicted upon me as a consequence of the police violent flogging in Maryland
at the hands of the ERU, internal bleeding is of deep concern to me. If
internal bleeding becomes realistic in my case, without proper medical
attention, chances are my life could be terminated. To manage this fear, on
July 4th I was airlifted by UNMIL to Monrovia as a referral to The J.F.K.
Memorial Hospital for further examination and treatment. I remained at the
J.F.K. Hospital for two days (July 5-7). On July 7, I was discharged pending a
Second medical Opinion. According to J.F.K, internal bleeding is not currently
visible. This Medical Report is good news for me to put to rest my fears. But
since Science is not EXACT, the fear of internal bleeding and other
complications still persist.
The following points summarized my request for ACTION:
1. Litigation
against the Liberia National Police Department in Liberia or in ECOWAS court of
competent jurisdiction
2. Request a
judicial commission of enquiry of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Liberia
to
investigate Magistrates Korkor and Nma of the Pleebo Magisterial Court
unethical behaviors bordered
on undermining the Integrity of the Court &
abuse of law-abiding and innocent citizens/litigants’ rights
through indecent
and unlawful acts particularly in my case. Understandably, there are other
cases of
abuse of power against common citizens who suffered severe injustice
but are voiceless and unable to
cry out loud as I do now. In the event both
Magistrates are found liable, they should be dismissed,
prosecuted and
compelled to make good of their wrongs against me and poor defenseless citizens
and
residents.
3. Compel the
Ministry of Justice to immediately withdraw the entire ERU from Maryland County
and
account for its past activities.
4. An independent
commission of enquiry be set up to investigate the deaths of Gartor Doe of
Pleebo and
Harrison Geeply of Harper from ERU police brutality.
5. Investigate
rape cases that have been suppressed by the Police Department with specific
emphasis on
the cases of an 18-year old pregnant girl raped by an Indian National
who walked free and the 11-year
old kid that was raped four different times on
four different occasions by a 40-year old man on the A.
Dash Wilson Farm, Old
Sodokeh, Pleebo.
6. Assist the 4th
Judicial Circuit Court with a psychiatrist to prosecute the rape case involving
a Rocktown
High Priest's wife who was raped by an Ivorian refugee.
7. Provide permanent
lodging for County Attorney and Public Defender in Maryland in order to provide
and enhance justice through the courts.
8. Receive Reparation
from the Police Department.
REPARATION
The term “reparation” may be defined as a repairing or
keeping in repair, the act of making amends or giving satisfaction for
wrongdoing, and/or the payment of damages - compensation in money of materials
payable by perpetrators. it is a range of different responses to wrongdoing
including Restitution, Rehabilitation, Satisfaction and guarantees of
non-repetition. Reparations are about repairing, making amends and compensation
including coordinated set of reparative measures with massive coverage.
Against this background and consideration, what exactly do I
want, one may ask, as a victim of police brutality.
1. Full disclosure of facts on all deaths by ERU including
and not limited to the Gartor Doe of Pleebo and Harrison Geeply of Harper City.
Full disclosure on all physical & psychological tortures, flogging... of
and not limited to the Lord Mayor of the city of Pleebo, Hon. Anthony Harmon,
student Wah Kla Neufville, Jnr., Anthony Wesley of Fishtown, Harper city, and
yours truly, Thomas G. Bedell of Harper and the theft of the personal property
and monies of Dumu Hne of Pleebo. Each and every one of these mentioned sad events
must be accounted for and al others from the date and time of the arrival of
the arrival and deployment of ERU on the soil of Maryland coupled with the
purpose for which ERU has been deployed in the County.
2. Official apologies from either the Ministry of Justice or
Government of Liberia,
3. Acknowledgment of wrongdoing by the Police Department
and/or the Government of Liberia,
4. Judicial or administrative proceedings to remove all
perpetrators from position of power,
5. Public memorials for those who died as a result of police
brutality,
6. Forms of education,
7. Return of victim's belongings and restoration of their
economic condition (i.e. business, legal rights and employment),
8. Monetary compensation,
9. Rehabilitative services to victims (e.g. medical care,
psychological care),
10. Establish a PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION to advise current
and future presidents against police brutality.
11. Bring an immediate halt to police brutality,
12. Legislators to pass an ACT to achieve Restitution for
all victims and families of police brutality
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