OTHERS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN TOO: AFTER ALL, FOUR SOLDIERS WERE SHOT DEAD ON
THE FORT ON OCTOBER 19TH BY CIVILIANS. TO THIS DAY NO ONE HAS
EVER BEEN CHARGED FOR THIS CRIME.
THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO HEAL, OUR NATION NEEDS TO MOVE ON. WE NEED TO LOOK
FORWARD, NOT BE PRISONERS OF THE PAST.
EVEN MARRYSHOW AND RADIX AGREE THAT THE AMERICANS WERE THE LAST PEOPLE TO
HAVE THE BODIES. LET’S GIVE THE GOVERNMENT EVERY SUPPORT IN PRESSING THE
AMERICANS FOR THE RETURN OF THE BODIES FOR A PROPER BURIAL.
SOUTH KOREA, NORTHERN IRELAND, ISRAEL, ALGERIA, U.S.A, MOROCCO, HAVE ALL
RELEASED POLITICAL PRISONERS IMPRISONED FOR SERIOUS OFFENCES RECENTLY.
UNTIL WE LET THE 17 GO, EVERY YEAR WE WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS BITTER,
NOISY CONFLICT WHICH ONLY DIVIDES OUR NATION. LET US END THIS ONCE AND FOR
ALL, BY FREEING THE 17, SO THAT WE CAN MOURN THE DECEASED IN PEACE AND DIGNITY
EVERY OCTOBER.
THE 17 DID NOT RECEIVE A FAIR TRIAL! DON’T ARGUE THAT! FOR IF THEY DID,
THEN WHY HAS NO ONE YET SEEN THE WRITTEN APPEAL COURT RULING TO THIS DAY, EIGHT
YEARS LATER?
Published December 1999 by the Free The Grenada 17 Committee