In October of 1983, Grenada's Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, was assassinated in a coup,

along with seven of his cabinet members and supporters.

They were all executed by a military firing squad. Six days later, the United States

invaded this Caribbean island and took control of the country. And it was during this the bodies of those eight people went

missing, including the body of the Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. That mystery of the missing remains continues until this day. That's where

our friend Martine Powers comes in. Martine hosts a daily news show called Post Reports for the Washington Post.

Her parents live in Grenada and a few years back she worked with us at Thooline to make an episode called

Nobody's Backyard,

all about the US invasion and its aftermath.

Working with us on that episode

got her curious, and she started doing some more digging

and ended up finding Annie Bain.

Annie's husband had been Grenada's minister of housing and he was one of those people executed

alongside the Prime Minister. For 40 years, she has begged for answers about what happened.

When the Washington Post reporting team visited her house back in 2022,

she told them about a memory that's had her convinced

that someone knows what happened to her husband's body. I'm Ram Tin Arablui and

today we're sharing an episode from the fantastic Washington Post

podcast called The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop.

Here it goes.

Anybane never saw her husband's body after he was killed. But she did for a brief moment, see something that he had been wearing when it happened.

They promised to bring it back.

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