Kin demand release of report:

Family members and supporters of slain historian and black activist Walter Rodney are calling on Guyana’s government to release a report on those responsible for his 1980 assassination.

Rodney’s youngest daughter Asha Rodney and other supporters urged the administration to release the report Saturday after several local media outlets said it found that thenprime minister Forbes Burnham of the People’s National Congress, or PNC, had knowledge of the plot to kill the activist in a car bomb explosion in Guyana’s capital.

Members of the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry said they delivered the report to President David Granger’s administration on Feb 9. The PNC is part of Granger’s ruling coalition and his administration was criticized for ending the commission’s work last November even though it had requested two more weeks to interview important witnesses.

“This is not the end. The report needs to be read and reviewed because justice still needs to be done,” Asha Rodney told The Associated Press on Saturday. She declined to comment on leaked portions of the report saying it would be unfair to do so.

Sixteen years after Rodney’s death, prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for former army Sgt Gregory Smith, who fled to nearby French Guiana and was never arrested. He has since died.