Gang violence has long crossed over from just between gangs to include innocent lives but more and more, these gangs are adding children as their victims.

Recently in Guyana, gunmen killed 11 including five children in Lusignan on the East Coast of Demerara. It came as a shock to many, but with the lack of proper law enforcement and security measures put in place, incidents of these will continue to occur. The killings are blamed on Guyana’s most crimminal who threatened to create havoc  if his kidnapped girlfriend was not returned safely. This heinous action has caused mass protest in the Lusignan community. The killing has eventually trickled down racial lines which as ever since created a sickening division between the two major races of the country – the Indo and Afro Guyanese.

Incidents such as these will also encourage other criminals to go further in their feat for supremacy. The police have been mocked by residents in the area where the killings took place.

Not in any way saying that they have not tried or are not present now, but residents believe enough is not done to bring the situation at bay.

In Kenya, more than 800 have been killed since the country’s December election as Police struggle to restore order.

Gangs have been going on killing rampages injuring and killing many innocent people along their way – without regard.

One of the worst incidents to date since the violence ensued, 19 people were burnt to death in a house where they sought refuge from a gang. The violence is also ethnic related between the Kikuyu tribe and Luos and Kalenjins.

In the Middle East, violence in Iraq continues to take innocent lives. In Sri Lanka, fights between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tigers rebels took the lives of at least 55.

Violence across the world continues to grow, whether it is gang, ethnic or politically related.

What can we do as a people who want to see a more peaceful world? Those of us whose countries are not affected still have to take note, as criminals look to their ‘criminal heroes’ for inspiration to go a step further. 

It’s important that as a people, we pray for a better and safer world – if only for the sake of our children and the future generation.

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