'They were incinerated in the incinerator attached to anatomy laboratory of St George's University....'.

ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada, Oct 19. CMC - Grenada Thursday marked October 19 as National Heroes Day with questions still remaining as to the whereabouts of the body of the island's first left wing prime minister Maurice Bishop, who was killed during a palace coup in 1983.

Bishop, along with several key members of his People's Revolutionary Government (PRG), which itself had come to power by overthrowing the government of then prime minister Sir Eric Gairy in March 1979, was gunned down soon after he was released from house arrest.

A military junta group within the PRG tried to make Bishop either step down or agree to a power-sharing...

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