The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has welcomed the Irfaan Ali-led government’s announcement that it would be moving to honour the life and legacy of slain WPA Leader Dr Walter Rodney and to set the record straight about his death.
“This is indeed a moment of overcoming for Guyana, the Caribbean and the wider world. It is also a moment of justice for other martyrs of that revolutionary moment such as Ohene Koama, Edward Dublin and Father Bernard Darke,” the WPA said on Friday in a statement reacting to the announcement, which was made on Thursday by Attorney General Anil Nandlall in the National Assembly.
Rodney was killed on June 13, 1980 in an explosion that is believed to have been engineered by the then PNC government under Forbes Burnham. A Commission of Inquiry set up under the Donald Ramotar-led PPP/C government had found that Gregory Smith was responsible for Rodney’s death and that he was acting as an agent of the state.
