The State continues to be a menace to the citizenry and much remains to be done to eliminate corruption and autocracy, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has said as the party today observes the 36th anniversary of the assassination of its founder Dr Walter Rodney.
A Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report this year concluded that Rodney was the victim of a State-organised assassination on June 13th, 1980 and this could only have been possible with the knowledge of then PNC Prime Minister Forbes Burnham. In the most detailed examination to date of a 36-year-old mystery that deeply divided the country and stained the image of the PNC, the CoI also found that the late soldier Gregory Smith carried out the killing and he was then spirited out of the country to French Guiana in an elaborate operation spearheaded by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
