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The People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) was the military of Grenada between 1979 and 1983. The People's Revolutionary Militia served as its reserve force. The two, alongside the Grenada Police and the Coast Guard, were collectively termed as the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (PRAF) from 1981.
Hudson Austin (26 April 1938 – 24 September 2022) [1] was a general in the People's Revolutionary Army of Grenada. After the killing of Maurice Bishop, he formed a military government with himself as chairman to rule Grenada.
While the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada, unlike other "socialist" regimes in the Third World, did not practice large-scale violence against its opponents — refraining from executing them or sentencing them to forced labor — the preventive detentions were frequent. Around 3,000 people, out of a population of less than 90,000 ...
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) – a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and black liberation.
Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979) 1 Sir Eric Gairy (1922–1997) 1976: 7 February 1974 13 March 1979 (Deposed in a coup) [2] 5 years, 34 days GULP: Prime ministers of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada (1979–1983) 2 Maurice Bishop (1944–1983) — 13 March 1979 14 October 1983 (Deposed in a coup) 4 years, 215 days NJM ...
Jacqueline Creft (1946 [1] – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian politician, one of the leaders of the revolutionary New Jewel Movement and Minister of Education in the People's Revolutionary Government from 1980 to 1983.
Winston Bernard Coard (born 10 August 1944) is a Grenadian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister in the People's Revolutionary Government of the New Jewel Movement.Coard launched a coup within the revolutionary government and took power for three days until he was himself deposed by General Hudson Austin.
On 12 October 1983 a hard-line faction of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Government of Grenada, controlled by former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, took control of the government from Bishop and placed him under house arrest. Within days, Bishop and many of his supporters were dead, and the nation had been placed under martial ...