Let’s change the headline to “Toronto poor at mercy of Jamaican gangs”
RightGirl at Girl on the Right on Apr 03 2008 at 7:47 am | Filed under: Human Rights Violators
Jamaica poor ‘at mercy of gangs’
Jamaica’s poor have been abandoned by the government and left to the mercy of violent criminal gangs, Amnesty International says in a new report.
Jamaica has one of the region’s highest murder rates, with 1,500 homicides in 2007 and 272 police killings.
“Criminal gangs… keep thousands of people living in constant fear,” Amnesty’s Fernanda Doz Costa said.
The human rights group urged Jamaican authorities to address the underlying causes of what it said was a “human rights crisis”.
It said the government should act to reduce murder rates, introduce human-rights based policing and reform the judicial system.
Clearly they need more basketball courts and afterschool prgrams.
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