St.
George's Grenada, January 25th,
2010: Grenada’s Leader of the
Opposition, Dr. The Right Hon. Keith
Mitchell has called on former Leader
of the Grenada Revolutionary
Government, Bernard Coard, to
provide concrete evidence for the
claims that he has made about the
disappearance of the bodies of
former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop
and Members of his Cabinet who were
brutally executed at Fort George
during the last days of the
Revolution.
Dr.
Mitchell was speaking after reading
an article in the Morning Star
newspaper in the United Kingdom in
which Coard accused the United
States of America and Prime Minister
Mitchell’s Administration of
obstructing efforts to find the
truth about the fate of the missing
bodies of Bishop and his colleagues.
Dr. Mitchell categorically denies
any such involvement. Dr. Mitchell
emphasized that Coard has continued
to implicate others in the
disappearance of those bodies and
added that Coard should now give a
full and credible account of the
events that took place in Grenada
from October 19th to October 25th,
the period that preceded the arrival
of United States troops in Grenada.
Statements made by several prominent
and credible Grenadians, including
those of former Governor General,
Sir Paul Scoon, have indicated that
Bishop’s body and the bodies of his
colleagues were destroyed and
disposed of before the United States
troops landed in Grenada. In the
Morning Star article, Mr. Coard
claimed that a US military doctor at
St. George’s University School of
Medicine examined the bodies.
Questions asked of the University
did not provide any evidence that
the University has ever employed a
US military doctor for the purpose
of performing autopsies.
Dr.
Mitchell said that the people of
Grenada have moved on but need to
have closure of the traumatic events
of October 1983.
