Walter
Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980.
At the time
of his assassination, Forbes Burnham was the President. Since the
assassination, there have been numerous calls for an investigation
into the circumstances of the killing. The brother of Walter Rodney,
Donald Rodney, survived and told the world that the bomb that
assassinated Walter Rodney was placed by Gregory Smith. Smith was an
operative from the Guyanese Defense force and he was spirited out of
the country to the colonial territory of Cayenne. He died there after
more than twenty years. There has never been an inquiry into the
assassination.
