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By Peter Ischyrion
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada, Jun. 28, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The ghost of Maurice Bishop continues to haunt Grenada 24 years after he was placed against a wall and executed alongside members of his cabinet.
A Grenadan justice sentenced the former ruler's deputy, Bernard Coard, to 40 years of hard labor on Wednesday in a ruling that triggered a flood of memories for most of the island's residents.
The execution of Bishop in October 1983 ended Grenada's brief flirtation with a left-wing government. Bishop had come to power four years earlier by deposing Sir Eric Gairy, the island's eccentric prime minister, in the English-speaking Caribbean's first change of government effected by the bullet rather than the ballot.
The United States invaded Grenada six days after Bishop's execution and deposed Coard. This week, Prime Minister Keith Mitchell announced that he has been unsuccessful in getting Washington to help locate the bodies of Bishop, his foreign minister Unison...
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