Truth commission needed for disclosure on Walter Rodney murder -WPA

WPA leaders yesterday said the party is willing to speak about the events that preceded the assassination of co-leader Dr Walter Rodney, on the condition that the disclosure is made to a wide-ranging Truth and Reconciliation Commission with the goal of bringing the country together.

This was announced at a news conference at the party’s New Garden Street headquarters yesterday, with attendance by co-leader Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine and senior members Dr. David Hinds, Dr. Maurice Odle and Desmond Trotman.

Yesterday marked the 32nd death anniversary of Rodney, a historian, whose political agitation had been seen as a threat to the rule of the Forbes Burnham-led PNC administration. He died in a