A daughter of slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop on Monday visited 10 prisoners convicted in a palace coup that led to her socialist father's assassination and the U.S. invasion of Grenada roughly 25 years ago.
Nadia Bishop said she visited inmates who were sentenced to death in 1986 for killing her father, four Cabinet members and six supporters, in order to help the southern Caribbean island close a painful chapter of its history.
"I had a wonderful and warm meeting with these men," she said in a statement on her visit to the Richmond Hill Prison. "I look forward to inviting the people of Grenada to join me in forgiveness and reconciliation."
A judge in June commuted the sentences of the 10 prisoners, including former Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, reducing their punishment to about a year and a half more in jail because they had demonstrated remorse.
Three other prisoners have walked out of the crumbling prison for good behavior after nearly a quarter-century behind bars for their involvement in the bloody 1983 coup that led to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
Bishop, whose New Jewel Movement overthrew a corrupt government in 1979 and allied itself with Cuba, was killed on Oct. 19, 1983, in a coup by a radical faction of his leftist government. The United States invaded six days later with support from nearby Caribbean countries.
Nadia Bishop led an unsuccessful effort in 1997 to find her father's remains, which, along with those other slain officials, have never been uncovered.
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