SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

US holds hundreds in Grenada prison camps

· Socialist Action No. 36, 2 December 1983 · p. 11 of the scan · 350 words

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US TROOPS and plainclothes agents are imprisoning hundreds of massive dragnet that reaches into every corner of the island.

throughout the country and in immigration offices. They are conducting house-to-house manhunts and search-and-destroy Everyone stopped is checked to see if their name appears on lists of labour activists, members of the Grenadian Or government of murdered Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, or members of the New Jewel Movement he led.

The US troops known to have jailed more than 200 citizens. The real number may be higher.

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Radix declared. The New Grenadian revolutionaries in a The U.S. soldiers are stationed at roadblocks operations in militia, employees in Jewel leader has been speaking out against the U.S. invasion detense O1. LOe Tevolu tionary policies of Maurice Bishop.

Little is known about the fate of other revolutionists. Washington adamently refuses reveal how many Grenadians have been killed since began. the The U.S. ridiculously Invasion Lilyaoiu O Wr lates of U.S. officials — they claim onlv 21 were Slain • is an ominous sign that the actual number slaughtered is very high, and going to inCucase.

US troops are caging hundreds of Grenadian revolutionaries ACTION A lynching atmosphere is being prepared to justify Washington's next moves eliminate V000SUI forces. Former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and Gen. Hudson Austin are to be put or trial soon.

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