Which
“crime” shall be punished or not in current day Liberia is left with
the police’s discretion; which laws shall be enforced, where and at
which time, and especially who is forced to respect the law, is decided
by the police. In effect, the police, the right arm of the Authorities,
abuse its power on a daily basis and exercise its violence with total
impunity.
The police continuously and everywhere in Liberia violate the very laws that they are supposed to uphold.
The
Emergency Response Unit notoriously known as ERU spys, double-deals,
hustles, represses, despises, pursues, arrests, imprisons, harasses, and
beats up; it inflicts indignity, it tortures and kills without
compunction.
Its primary targets are workers, poor, homeless, immigrants, and persons with irregular status, the marginalized, students, youths, activists, gender-based and feminist activists and people who question and don’t accept the legitimacy of the authorities.
Its primary targets are workers, poor, homeless, immigrants, and persons with irregular status, the marginalized, students, youths, activists, gender-based and feminist activists and people who question and don’t accept the legitimacy of the authorities.
In
response to the widening gap between the workers and management of the
Cavalla Rubber Corporation in Pleebo/Sodokeh District and the poor, the
deepening of poverty and the general deterioration of living
conditions, the Liberian government invests in ERU force to do what it
takes to maintain order and social peace in Maryland County.
Latest killings:
Date: 2011
Victim: Gartoe Doe
Location: Pleebo City, Maryland County, R. L.
Date: May, 2012
Victim: Harrison Geeply
Location: New Kru Town, Harper City, Maryland County, R.L.
Latest brutality:
Date: 2011
Victim: Wah-Kla Neufville, Jnr. - he was beaten into coma because he and a girlfriend of ERU had misunderstanding
Location: Middlesex, Harper City, Maryland County
Date: 2011
Victim: Anthony Harmon, Lord Mayor of Pleebo City was brutalized for asking the ERU a simple question, "Why are you beating on my people?"
Location: Pleebo City, Maryland County
Date: 2011
Victim: Anthony Wesley was brutalized and placed under gun point for asking that his property stolen by the ERU be returned
Location: Fishtown, Harper, Maryland County
Date: 2011
Victim: Dumu Hne, he was brutalized and robbed by ERU
Date: June 29, 2012
Victim: Thomas G. Bedell - was brutalized by well-armed ERU officers on the orders of Magistrate Wesley Korkor on grounds there was a contempt charge which he voluntarily appeared in court to answer to. He was robbed and tortured.
The unabated killings and attacks against activists in Maryland have revealed a completely inadequate response by the government to prevent further deaths and to remedy this worsening situation. the police's responsibility in investigating these cases has fallen completely short of what is required, resulting in the perpetrators, in most cases, having yet to be prosecuted in a court of law. this lack of an effective police investigation into killings and violence against activists and the Government seeming unwillingness to properly intervene are the greatest obstacles in prosecuting the perpetrators and bring an end to these deaths.
Worse of all, the Attorney General (Christiana Tarr) and the Police Chief (Chris Massaquoi) do not speak. They are not on speaking term. As a result, they are not attending to the security matters of the Liberian people and state.
If both individuals are not fired or resign from their current posts, our National Security will remain under threat. And our citizens and residents will continue to be killed by the police without any judicial review.
I am Thomas G. Bedell working and speaking on the ground in Liberia!
Latest killings:
Date: 2011
Victim: Gartoe Doe
Location: Pleebo City, Maryland County, R. L.
Date: May, 2012
Victim: Harrison Geeply
Location: New Kru Town, Harper City, Maryland County, R.L.
Latest brutality:
Date: 2011
Victim: Wah-Kla Neufville, Jnr. - he was beaten into coma because he and a girlfriend of ERU had misunderstanding
Location: Middlesex, Harper City, Maryland County
Date: 2011
Victim: Anthony Harmon, Lord Mayor of Pleebo City was brutalized for asking the ERU a simple question, "Why are you beating on my people?"
Location: Pleebo City, Maryland County
Date: 2011
Victim: Anthony Wesley was brutalized and placed under gun point for asking that his property stolen by the ERU be returned
Location: Fishtown, Harper, Maryland County
Date: 2011
Victim: Dumu Hne, he was brutalized and robbed by ERU
Date: June 29, 2012
Victim: Thomas G. Bedell - was brutalized by well-armed ERU officers on the orders of Magistrate Wesley Korkor on grounds there was a contempt charge which he voluntarily appeared in court to answer to. He was robbed and tortured.
The unabated killings and attacks against activists in Maryland have revealed a completely inadequate response by the government to prevent further deaths and to remedy this worsening situation. the police's responsibility in investigating these cases has fallen completely short of what is required, resulting in the perpetrators, in most cases, having yet to be prosecuted in a court of law. this lack of an effective police investigation into killings and violence against activists and the Government seeming unwillingness to properly intervene are the greatest obstacles in prosecuting the perpetrators and bring an end to these deaths.
Worse of all, the Attorney General (Christiana Tarr) and the Police Chief (Chris Massaquoi) do not speak. They are not on speaking term. As a result, they are not attending to the security matters of the Liberian people and state.
If both individuals are not fired or resign from their current posts, our National Security will remain under threat. And our citizens and residents will continue to be killed by the police without any judicial review.
I am Thomas G. Bedell working and speaking on the ground in Liberia!
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