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Mongoose Gang
The '''Mongoose Gang''' was a  [[private army]] or [[militia]] which operated from 1967 to 1979 under the control of Sir [[Eric Gairy]], the [[List of heads of government of Grenada|Premier]] and later [[Prime Minister of Grenada|Prime Minister]] of [[Grenada]], and head of the [[Grenada United Labour Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDgairy.htm|title=Eric Gairy : Biography|accessdate=2013-10-08}}</ref><ref name="Olson1991&q(contracted; show full)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.<ref name="AllsoppAllsopp2003">{{cite book|author1=Richard Allsopp|author2=Jeannette Allsopp|title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmvSk13sIc0C&pg=PA385|year=2003|publisher=University of the West Indies Press|isbn=978-976-640-145-0|pages=385–}}</ref>
 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, he denied employing thugs or any kind of secret police.<ref name="LLC1984">{{cite book|author=New York Media, LLC|title=New York Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oOYCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14|date=13 February 1984|publisher=New York Media, LLC|pages=14–|id={{ISSN|00287369}}}}</ref>⏎

The Mongoose Gang has often been compared to the [[Tonton Macoute]] of [[Haiti]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/grenada/history|title=Grenada : History|accessdate=2013-10-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://caribbean-beat.com/issue-96/end-eric#axzz4AMgDH6uW|title=The end of Eric Gairy|accessdate=2016-06-01}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=980OYZ6M7k0 Video: GRENADA POLICE - Reporter statement about Grenadian police]
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[[Category:History of British Grenada]]
[[Category:Private armies]]
[[Category:Paramilitary organisations based in Grenada]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1967]]
[[Category:Political repression]]
[[Category:Anti-communist organizations]]
[[Category:Secret police]]