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Gifford, Insp. Edwards said that he did not know if the men he left behind
“deployed or not”.
FINDINGS
9.134.
Insp. Edwards’ evidence about the whereabouts of the
persons he left in the APC when he set out to conduct a search of the
premises off Chang Avenue and for the half an hour after completion
of the search, raises concerns about the activities of at least eight
members of the security forces on the afternoon of 24 May. We
exclude Insp. Edwards and Cons. Scott from our calculations. We find
that it is highly probable that members of the security forces, including
the soldiers who had “gone about their business” and policemen left in
the APC, committed extra-judicial killings in the Java area. They had
ample time within which to engage in such illegal conduct. Evidence of
some of the civilian witnesses, as to the times at which such killings
took place in Java, fortifies us in this finding. In any event, this matter
calls for further investigation by INDECOM.
PART D
CIVILIANS INJURED
(a)
Germaine McLeod
9.135.
Mr. McLeod who lived at 22 Harold Path, testified that, on 24 May,
while at Ms. Sissy’s house, he saw some houses “to the front of her house begin
to burn” and her house actually caught afire. A soldier ordered all occupants of
Ms. Sissy’s house to go outside. He lifted Ms. Sissy who was wheelchair-bound
but a soldier made him put her down.
9.136.
He was then beaten by soldiers with a baton in the presence of
many persons. He was brought into a yard where a soldier broke the limb of a