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Published: Monday | October 11, 20100 Comments and 0 Reactions
Men who were detained by the security forces during the recent operation in west Kingston display documents indicating they were processed by the police. - AP
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Livern Barrett, Gleaner Writer
A 16-year-old boy, believed to have been forcibly removed from his home in Tivoli Gardens by members of the security forces, is one of three persons who have vanished almost five months after the military-led operation in the west Kingston community.
The teenager has been identified as Dale Anthony Davis, who lived at Building 15, in Tivoli Gardens.
The other persons missing are Dwayne Edwards and Andre Smith, an American citizen, whose disappearance has drawn the attention of the United States embassy in Kingston.
On Friday, the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI), which is probing the matter, said checks with the National Intelligence Bureau, the Inspectorate Branch and a review of the list of detainees who were held at the National Arena, in Kingston, have turned up no trace of the three.
Forcibly removed
Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause, head of the BSI, said Davis is not among the 73 people who were killed during the operation.
Davis' mother, Dawn Brown, broke down in tears last week as she told The Gleaner that her son was removed from his home by heavily armed soldiers.
Brown, who is seven months pregnant, said on May 25, soldiers and police took the teenager from his home, saying they were taking him to the National Arena where he would be processed and released.
"We nuh see him back until today," she said.
"But God naw sleep enuh. Me woulda like the police who tek him outta him house bring to justice, 'cause it don't fair," she sobbed.
"How can you go in a house and see a likkle bwoy wid a sick woman and tek him out and carry him away, and now him cannot be found?" asked Brown, in reference to the fact that the teenager was staying with a seriously ill relative.
Conflicting reports
However, there are indications that police investigators are being frustrated by what Gause said were conflicting reports from the boy's mother.
"She is saying somebody from Tivoli Gardens, who was also a detainee, told her that he (Davis) was among them at the Arena," he said.
"That is one aspect of it. There is another aspect of it, that it is being said that him (Davis) never come outta Tivoli at all," Gause added.
"So, even from that angle, we are trying to find out which one of the groups is speaking the truth," he said.
Meanwhile, Gause has appealed to members of the public who might have information about the missing men to contact the police.
livern.barrett@gleanerjm.com
Published: Monday | October 11, 20100 Comments and 0 Reactions
Men who were detained by the security forces during the recent operation in west Kingston display documents indicating they were processed by the police. - AP
1 2 >
Livern Barrett, Gleaner Writer
A 16-year-old boy, believed to have been forcibly removed from his home in Tivoli Gardens by members of the security forces, is one of three persons who have vanished almost five months after the military-led operation in the west Kingston community.
The teenager has been identified as Dale Anthony Davis, who lived at Building 15, in Tivoli Gardens.
The other persons missing are Dwayne Edwards and Andre Smith, an American citizen, whose disappearance has drawn the attention of the United States embassy in Kingston.
On Friday, the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI), which is probing the matter, said checks with the National Intelligence Bureau, the Inspectorate Branch and a review of the list of detainees who were held at the National Arena, in Kingston, have turned up no trace of the three.
Forcibly removed
Assistant Commissioner Granville Gause, head of the BSI, said Davis is not among the 73 people who were killed during the operation.
Davis' mother, Dawn Brown, broke down in tears last week as she told The Gleaner that her son was removed from his home by heavily armed soldiers.
Brown, who is seven months pregnant, said on May 25, soldiers and police took the teenager from his home, saying they were taking him to the National Arena where he would be processed and released.
"We nuh see him back until today," she said.
"But God naw sleep enuh. Me woulda like the police who tek him outta him house bring to justice, 'cause it don't fair," she sobbed.
"How can you go in a house and see a likkle bwoy wid a sick woman and tek him out and carry him away, and now him cannot be found?" asked Brown, in reference to the fact that the teenager was staying with a seriously ill relative.
Conflicting reports
However, there are indications that police investigators are being frustrated by what Gause said were conflicting reports from the boy's mother.
"She is saying somebody from Tivoli Gardens, who was also a detainee, told her that he (Davis) was among them at the Arena," he said.
"That is one aspect of it. There is another aspect of it, that it is being said that him (Davis) never come outta Tivoli at all," Gause added.
"So, even from that angle, we are trying to find out which one of the groups is speaking the truth," he said.
Meanwhile, Gause has appealed to members of the public who might have information about the missing men to contact the police.
livern.barrett@gleanerjm.com
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