THE
young Officer Cadet who
died while on an officers
training course Tuesday
was murdered,
Guyana Defence Force (GDF)
Chief-of-Staff Brigadier
Edward Collins said last
night.
In
a reaction to the findings
of a post mortem yesterday
that Amar Rajcumar died
from a blow to the head,
Brigadier Collins told the
Guyana Chronicle the
autopsy “has shown
clearly that he was
murdered”.
“The
GDF will do everything in
its power to find the
person or persons who were
involved”, he said,
adding, “we will pursue
this relentlessly to the
end until the perpetrators
are brought to justice.”
Collins
noted that the Army’s
Board of Inquiry into the
death was continuing and
the Police are also
investigating.
MURDERED:
OFFICER CADET AMAR
RAJCUMAR - Stabroek
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He
extended condolences to
the family of the
21-year-old cadet.
The
Government Information
Agency (GINA) said
Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces, President
Bharrat Jagdeo, has also
expressed his condolences
to the family.
An
Army spokesman said a
member of the training
staff has since been
removed from the
officers’ course and is
confined to the Army base
at Timehri.
He
said the internal inquiry
began on the night of the
incident and all the
cadets and members of
staff on the course are
being questioned.
The
post mortem, the spokesman
said, showed that Rajcumar
was hit on the back of the
head.
The
Army Tuesday night said it
had launched an internal
inquiry into the
circumstances of the death
of Rajcumar, of Seafield,
Leonora, West Coast
Demerara.
It
said Rajcumar was
pronounced dead at the
Georgetown Public Hospital
Corporation (GPHC) on
Tuesday afternoon after he
reportedly collapsed
during a Standard Officers
training session at the
Army base at Timehri.
The
Army in a statement issued
late Tuesday night
reported that at about
12:45 h that day, the
students were involved in
a physical training
session and “during that
session, OCDT Amar
Rajcumar collapsed”.
The
Army said he was
immediately taken to the
medical centre at Base
Camp Stephenson, Timehri
where the medic on duty
referred him to the GPHC.
He
was pronounced dead on
arrival at the GPHC at
14:45 h, the Army said.
It
noted that the Standard
Officers Course # 39,
commenced April 3 with 35
students, including
Rajcumar.
The
course began with 27
persons from the GDF, four
from the Guyana Police
Force (GPF), one from the
Guyana Prison Service
(GPS), one from the Guyana
Fire Service (GFS) and two
from the Belize Defence
Force (BDF).
His
father is an ex-police
officer and is now a
member of the Customs
Anti Narcotics Unit
day,
April 14, 2006
