Human Rights AbusesDeath and Violent Incidents Most, of not all, of the deaths and beatings listed below were the result of unlawful behavior of individual members of the Mongoose Gang, the Grenada Volunteer Constabulary, the Royal Grenada Police Force, Police Aides, and others associated with the Gairy Government. In a majority of the cases listed below, Barrister Kendrick Radix was the victimized person's or the family of the victimized person's legal representative. 1970 - Nurses' Strike tear gas 1970 - Beating of Edith McBain 1970 - Edgar Joseph shot 1972 - Dowlin Grant beaten 1973 - Mathew Joseph beaten 1973 - Dave Mayers beaten 1973 - Hamilton beaten 1973 - Goodrich Antoine brutalized 1973 - Alister Hughes assaulted 1973 - Alston Williams chopped* 1973 - Leonard Greenidge assaulted 1973 - Clarence Ferguson and family chopped* and humiliated in public on St. John's Street 1973 - Death of Jeremiah Richardson 1973 - Ken Milne and Norbert St. Bernard beaten, and a woman bystander shot in the leg during the incident 1973 - Septimus Pierre shot and Simon Charles shot twice and beaten 1973 - Bloody Sunday with the beatings of Maurice Bishop, Hudson Austin and Selwyn Strachan. See Bloody Sunday 1973 - Severe beatings of Eric Campbell, Joseph Grainger and Eslyn Christopher 1973 - Albert Rennie beaten. See Duffus Report 
Albert Rennie's 121 stitches,photo from D. Sinclair DaBreo's "Prostitution of a Democracy" 1973 - Second assault incident on Norbert St. Bernard 1973 - Allan Bierzynski assaulted 1973 - Harold Strachan death 1974 - M. Davidson, Pater Lashley, Derek Romain and David Mayers tortured; Lashley gashed by gunshot 1974 - Bloody Monday with the death of Rupert Bishop. See Bloody Monday. Also see references to Rupert Bishop in the index of The Duffus Report 1974 - Bloody Monday [with gun shot wounds] Garfield Brathwaite 1974 - Joseph Ross assaulted 1974 - Franklyn Baptiste shot 1974 - Beating of Godwin Cudjoe 1975 - Ted Hazzard shot at 1975 - Cecil Butler assaulted and branded 1975 - Kendrick Radix beaten and shot while trying to take photographs 1975 - Martin De Coteau beaten and branded with a hot iron 1975 - Eugene Rose beaten and blinded 1975 - Ellsworth Dick beaten and branded with a hot iron 1976 - James Jeffrey shot/paralyzed 1976 - Maurice Paterson tear-gassed and maced in prison cell on Fort George. 1976 - Death of Ralph Gibbs 1976 - Murder of Henry Thomas 1977 - Georgiana Armstrong shot in back 1977 - Nicholas Phillip, 13 years old, beaten on hands 1977 - Keith Donald beaten 1977 - Glen Belfon beaten 1977 - Martin John beaten 1977 - Death of Alister Strachan 
1977 - Bertrand Cadet beaten 1977 - Desmond Phillip beaten, attempted hanging 1977 - Selwyn Mitchell and 5 Harbour Boys "Sporting Club" Members beaten 1977 - Anthony Bartholomew beaten and flogged 1978 - Death of Innocent Belmar 1978 - Disappearance of Irie Bishop 1978 - Harry Andrew shot dead 1978 - Kennedy Budhlall beaten 1978 - Jacob [no surname] beaten 1978 - Lennard De Coteau beaten 1978 - Thomas Frederick beaten 1978 - Lloyd John beaten *injured with cutlass/planass/machete blade cutsMany of the occurrences listed above are itemized in the November 1982 "Report on Human Rights Developments in Grenada" issued by The Grenada Committee on Human Rights. That Committee was a "non-profit, non-governmental committee comprising Grenadian and other Caribbean citizens, committed to the objective investigation and defense of Human Rights in the Caribbean." The Report notes that "this document may be freely quoted and used with recognition given to the source." The Secretary was Winston Bullen. The Report totals 70 pages and includes 19 pages of specific incidents. Six pages list loss of life and inhumane treatment from 1972-1978 with sources cited - compiler Colville McBarnette's "Allegations of Human Violations in Grenada for Human Rights Research Project of the Caribbean Council of Churches", compiler Alister Hughes' "Violations of Human Rights in Grenada for Human Rights Research Project of the Caribbean Conference of Churches", New Jewel newspaper, Torchlight newspaper and the Duffus Report. |