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tree and beat him with it. A female police officer intervened. He was put in a
line with other persons and they walked to an apartment building in Java. This
was in the late afternoon. His hands were bound and he was asked if he knew
Coke. He said ‘No’ and a soldier “elbow me up”. The same female police officer
asked the soldier what he was doing and he replied “He is mine!” At this time,
Mr. McLeod’s hands were swollen and he was untied.
9.137.
Mr. McLeod related that, later that evening, the same soldier made
him crawl on his knees and constantly kicked him and hit him with his baton all
the way to a truck. He and others were driven to Up Park Camp where he said a
truck was driven over his right hand. Mr. McLeod told the Commission that he
sustained broken teeth which he showed to a doctor. After 2 days at Up Park
Camp, he was taken to the National Arena where he spent a further 2 or 3 days
before release with “a piece of white paper”. He is unable to identify either the
soldier who beat him or the female police officer who intervened.
9.138.
Under cross-examination by Ms. Martin and Mr. Gordon,
Mr. McLeod said that he saw civilians running on Chang Avenue with guns on
24 May – “maybe three or four persons”. To Ms. Martin, he said –
“I see guys running around with guns but I don’t know what
kind of guns they running with…..As I said in my report, I
have seen people running around with guns that weren’t
wearing police or soldier uniform. This was before 24 May.
No. I remember it happening the same day, that’s when I
remember people were getting armed, running around with
guns.”
As to the time when he saw men running around with guns, Mr. McLeod said –
“When the shots were firing and the place got intense, that’s
when I saw people running across the street with guns. So
I don’t know about the day before that, I am telling you
what I saw from the day it happened.”
He said that when he went to Ms. Sissy’s house, he saw bodies lying on the
pathway.