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«Банда мангустов» (англ. Mongoose Gang) — гренадская военизированная группировка криминально-политического характера. Была создана Эриком Гейри для расправы над политическими противниками. Подавляла оппозицию террористическими методами «эскадронов смерти». Запрещена после прихода к власти Нового движения ДЖУЭЛ в 1979. Участвовала в его свержении в 1983. В современной Гренаде считается восстановленной на иных организационно-политических основах.
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| dbo:abstract | The Mongoose Gang was a private army or militia which operated from 1967 to 1979 under the control of Sir Eric Gairy, the Premier and later Prime Minister of Grenada, and head of the Grenada United Labour Party. Officially, Mongoose Gang members were called Special Reserve Police (S.R.P.) or Volunteer Constables. A news report from 1974 confirms that the "Mongoose squad" sometimes carried rifles, but generally carried "thick pieces of wood". Mongoose Gang members also tended not to dress in any distinctive way. The Mongoose Gang was responsible for silencing critics, breaking up demonstrations and murdering opponents of the Gairy regime, including , the father of Maurice Bishop, in January 1974. Maurice Bishop himself was beaten by members of the Mongoose Gang two months previously, in November 1973, and jailed. The violence of the Mongoose Gang and the Grenadian police became a more important factor than the state of the economy in generating unrest. MI5 intelligence reports at the time referred to the Gang as being "ruthless", and "an un-uniformed and undisciplined body... many of them have criminal records.” In November 1974, 10 months after Grenada's independence from Great Britain, Bishop's New Jewel Movement issued a People's Indictment calling for "power to the people" and declaring that "the Gairy Government was born in blood, baptized in fire, christened with bullets, is married to foreigners, and is resulting in death to the people". In the 1976 Grenadian general election, the Grenada United Labour Party won nine of the 15 seats, whilst the opposition People's Alliance (a coalition of the New Jewel Movement, the Grenada National Party and the United People's Party) won the remainder. However, the elections were marred by fraud (and branded fraudulent by international observers), as the Mongoose Gang had been threatening the opposition. The Mongoose Gang was used against protesters during the 1977 General Assembly of the Organization of American States hosted by Grenada. In 1979, a rumour circulated that Gairy would use the Gang to eliminate leaders of the New Jewel Movement while he was out of the country.In response, Bishop overthrew Gairy in March of that year while the latter was visiting the United States.The Mongoose Gang then ceased to operate; the Gang's leader, Mosyln Bishop, a taxi driver, was subsequently sentenced later that year to fourteen years in prison for attempting to murder three people in November 1973. The name 'Mongoose Gang' originated in the 1950s, when the local health officials sought to eliminate the mongoose as a pest, and paid people who brought in mongoose tails as proof of killing the animals. The men who were employed in such work became known as the 'mongoose-gang'. Later, the name shifted to refer to gangs of political thugs on Grenada. In fact, it was Gairy himself who got jobs for a number of men and women on the mongoose-eradication project in the 1950s when he was a representative of the Colony of Grenada's Legislative Council. For Gairy's part, in a 1984 interview with New York magazine, he denied employing thugs or any kind of secret police. The Mongoose Gang has often been compared to the Tonton Macoute of Haiti. (en) La Mongoose Gang (lett. Banda della Mangusta) fu una milizia, polizia segreta ed esercito privato operante a Grenada dal 1967 al 1979 sotto il diretto controllo del premier e poi primo ministro , leader del , che la utilizzò per creare un regime dittatoriale e autoritario nel Paese. Agenti dell'ente di controspionaggio britannico MI5 affermarono che la Mongoose Gang era "spietata" e la descrissero come «un organismo senza uniformi e senza disciplina… molti di loro hanno dei precedenti penali.». La Mongoose Gang venne inoltre più volte paragonata ai Tonton Macoutes del regime del dittatore haitiano François Duvalier. (it) «Банда мангустов» (англ. Mongoose Gang) — гренадская военизированная группировка криминально-политического характера. Была создана Эриком Гейри для расправы над политическими противниками. Подавляла оппозицию террористическими методами «эскадронов смерти». Запрещена после прихода к власти Нового движения ДЖУЭЛ в 1979. Участвовала в его свержении в 1983. В современной Гренаде считается восстановленной на иных организационно-политических основах. (ru) |
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| rdfs:comment | «Банда мангустов» (англ. Mongoose Gang) — гренадская военизированная группировка криминально-политического характера. Была создана Эриком Гейри для расправы над политическими противниками. Подавляла оппозицию террористическими методами «эскадронов смерти». Запрещена после прихода к власти Нового движения ДЖУЭЛ в 1979. Участвовала в его свержении в 1983. В современной Гренаде считается восстановленной на иных организационно-политических основах. (ru) The Mongoose Gang was a private army or militia which operated from 1967 to 1979 under the control of Sir Eric Gairy, the Premier and later Prime Minister of Grenada, and head of the Grenada United Labour Party. Officially, Mongoose Gang members were called Special Reserve Police (S.R.P.) or Volunteer Constables. A news report from 1974 confirms that the "Mongoose squad" sometimes carried rifles, but generally carried "thick pieces of wood". Mongoose Gang members also tended not to dress in any distinctive way. The Mongoose Gang has often been compared to the Tonton Macoute of Haiti. (en) La Mongoose Gang (lett. Banda della Mangusta) fu una milizia, polizia segreta ed esercito privato operante a Grenada dal 1967 al 1979 sotto il diretto controllo del premier e poi primo ministro , leader del , che la utilizzò per creare un regime dittatoriale e autoritario nel Paese. (it) |
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