Death 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 cuts
Many 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.