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Jun 26, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor;
The widow of Walter Rodney and his brother, Donald, have commented on the COI report at a forum held in Jamaica last week. Patricia Rodney thanked the Commission for an excellent job while the brother though satisfied with the report felt that it did not sufficiently or at all castigate f the magistrate who presided over his case/the Coronet’s Inquest. The event which was hosted by the Office of the Vice Chancellor of the UWI in collaboration with the Institute for Gender an Development Studies and the Department of Government, UWI Mona, was attended by hundreds.
The speakers included Richard Small, QC and Rodney Scholar; Professor Emeritus, Rupert Lewis; Horace Campbell who heads a Walter Rodney Foundation in the US; Walter Mohammed; and Andrew Pilgrim.
Campbell specifically embraced paragraph 737 of the Report where Walter Rodney is referred to a “man of large”
He however expressed concern that the report does not expose foreign involvement in Rodney’s death. Mohammed spoke of his association with the distinguished historian who united the ethnic groups in Guyana. The participants discussed the life and work of Rodney, renowned Pan African scholar and activist.
They also reviewed the COI report which might have significant implications for all countries in the region.
Meanwhile a petition is being circulated in the region and the wider world to have its recommendations acted upon. The report concluded that his death was an act of violence for political purposes -an act of terrorism.
The petition is calling for a change of the manner of death on the death cerificate from “Death by misadventure to “Murder”, a change to the description of the profession of Walter Rodney from unemployed” to “Historian Professor”, the overturning of Donald Rodney’s conviction and the expunging of any related criminal history.
Oscar Ramjeet
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