Grenada, 1983: Maurice Bishop's Last Days and the Trial of the Grenada 17
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On October 19, 1983, Maurice Bishop, the Prime Minister of Grenada, and seven others were executed at Fort Rupert in St. George's. Six days later, the United States invaded. In 1986 a Grenadian court tried seventeen people. This episode tells the record: the events, the trial and its verdicts, the sentences and their commutation, the criticism of the trial's fairness by Amnesty International, and the question that remains, where Bishop's remains are. Sources: Global Voices, Amnesty International reporting on the trial, the U.S. State Department human rights reports, Grenadian press (NOW Grenada, The New Today), BlackPast and other histories. Where sources differ, the episode says so. Verdicts and sentences are stated by date.
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