A protester was shot dead as demonstrators took to the streets in Guyana on Satu...
GEORGETOWN - A protester was shot dead as demonstrators took to the streets in Guyana on Saturday after opposition leaders and international observers accused the government of David Granger of rigging this week’s presidential election.
The unrest threatens to inflame decades of racial tensions between black Guyanese, who broadly support Granger’s APNU-AFC coalition, and Indo-Guyanese, who largely backed Irfaan Ali of opposition party PPP. “Police ranks whilst performing duty on the Cotton Tree Public Road, West Coast Berbice, came under attack by protesters which resulted in several ranks being hospitalized and their attacker dead,” the statement said.
The country’s top court was expected on Saturday to rule on whether or not to block the elections commission from declaring Granger a winner.
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