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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)es.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/duffus56thru57.html|title=Report of the Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law & Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada|accessdate=2017-06-05}}</ref> At the 1975 Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law & Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada, Nugent David, a former Commissioner of Police, confirmed that a group of men known as the Mongoose Gang were among the police aides. To his knowledge, 
MRoslyn Bishop and his brother Willie Bishop were reputedly leaders of the gang.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com/duffus67.html|title=Report of the Duffus Commission of Inquiry into the Breakdown of Law & Order, and Police Brutality in Grenada|accessdate=2017-06-05}}</ref> The brothers were cousins of [[Maurice Bishop]].<ref name="RoseMagid2002">{{cite book|author1=Euclid A. Rose|author2=Alvin Magid|title=Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean: Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KkPb3-krfQgC&pg=PA296|year=2002|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-0448-4|pages=296–}}</ref>

According to David the police aides were under his jurisdiction because they assisted the police with their duties although they were not recruited normally as policemen who were required to undergo tests for educational and physical fitness; but they were paid through the office of the Commissioner. David said he did not know how or by whom the recruitment of police aides was done except that he knew the recruitment took place in [[St. George's, Grenada|St. George's]] and that after he assumed (contracted; show full)

The Mongoose Gang was responsible for silencing critics,<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/223562/Sir-Eric-Matthew-Gairy Sir Eric Matthew Gairy (prime minister of Grenada) - Encyclopædia Britannica<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> breaking up demonstrations and murdering opponents of the Gairy regime, including [[Rupert Bishop]], 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.<ref name="Jessup1998">{{cite book|author=John E. Jessup|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hP7jJAkTd9MC&pg=PA75|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28112-9|pages=75–}}</ref> The violence of the Mongoose Gang and the Grenadian poli(contracted; show full)
[[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]]