Accra, Ghana, June 12, 2020//-The Steering Committee of Pan-African Writers’ Association (PAWA) has called on the United States authorities to bring to book all those involved in the gruesome murder of George Floyd.
The committee made this called in a statement issued and signed in Accra, Ghana by its Chairman, Nana Kwasi Gyan-Apenteng.
It added that the U.S authorities must ensure that there is justice for the late George Floyd who was allegedly murdered by some U.S policemen over a frivolous allegation. He has subsequently been laid to rest.
The statement said: “PAWA strongly condemns the discriminatory treatment of black people in the USA and the often senseless killing of unarmed and innocent black men and women in the country.
PAWA likes to reiterate its commitment to global values of peace, human rights, equality and social justice for all people under the sun”.
The African Writers also expressed their deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd and many others who have lost a loved one due to institutional, historic and systemic racism.
“PAWA as a continental organisation of African writers organise the African Dispora as a regional unit of the African Union and part of the African nation.
It therefore falls on us to be a voice of the people in times such as this when the assertion of human values must rise to the fore”, it stated.
“The protests that have erupted across the United States and many actions of solidarity around the globe make it clear that the entire world finds these acts of police brutality and murder in the so-called leader of the free world unacceptable”.
They therefore called on all African Writers and creators of literacy content to rise to this occasion by expressing solidarity with all oppressed people around the world especially people of colour who suffer multiple indignities of racism, poverty, inequalities and social injustices.
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