{"id":781,"date":"2016-11-01T17:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T21:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecaribbeanist.com\/?post_type=glossary&p=781"},"modified":"2019-03-10T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T19:47:10","slug":"revolutionary-military-council","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/grenadarevo.com\/glossary\/revolutionary-military-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Military Council [RMC]<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the execution of Grenada Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters on Bloody Wednesday, a Revolutionary Military Council was formed.<\/p>\n

The Revolutionary Military Council announced on October 19, 1983 that it had become Grenada’s legal government.<\/p>\n

RMC Members<\/h2>\n

Sixteen (16) military officers of the PRAF made up the council although Bernard Coard, Selwyn Strachan and John Ventour were the ‘invisible’ advisers and masterminds who kept a low profile.\u00a0 The official RMC members were announced as:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hudson Austin, chairman<\/li>\n
  2. Ewart Layne, vice-chairman<\/li>\n
  3. Liam James, vice chairman<\/li>\n
  4. Dave Bartholomew<\/li>\n
  5. Leon Cornwall<\/li>\n
  6. Ian St. Bernard<\/li>\n
  7. Christopher Stroude<\/li>\n
  8. Keith Roberts<\/li>\n
  9. Basil Gahagan<\/li>\n
  10. Lester Redhead<\/li>\n
  11. Hughie Romain<\/li>\n
  12. Cecil Prime<\/li>\n
  13. Rudolph Ogilivie<\/li>\n
  14. Callistus Bernard<\/li>\n
  15. Kenrick Fraser<\/li>\n
  16. Raeburn Nelson<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    On the evening of October 19, 1983 in a statement read over Radio Free Grenada, General Hudson Austin announced that four soldiers and “several civilians had died in what it called a crossfire. The council also went on to blame Maurice Bishop for what it described as a tragic gunfight at the Fort Rupert army headquarters in St. George’s, the Grenadian Capital.<\/p>\n

    The RMC imposed a 24-hour curfew on October 19, 1983 and warned that ‘anyone found violating the curfew would be shot on sight.’ \u00a0The curfew was lifted two (2) days later.<\/p>\n

    The RMC did not seem to be recognized by any other countries as a government. A letter to the RMC from Fidel Castro barely offered any support.<\/p>\n

    By October 21st, Bernard Coard and his wife Phyllis Coard disappeared from public view and Leon Cornwall became the spokesperson for the RMC.<\/p>\n

    The short-lived, six-day term of the RMC ended when the US led an invasion of Grenada on October 25, 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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