Wikipedia's article on the Coral Gardens incident, community-edited. Reliable for the dates, 11 to 13 April 1963 near Montego Bay, Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante's order to "bring in all Rastas, dead or alive," at least eight Rastafari killed and up to 150 detained with forcibly cut dreadlocks, and Jamaica's formal government apology in April 2017, more than fifty years later; the article itself notes accounts of the precipitating gas station violence conflict between a police version and an account locating the violence in a longstanding land dispute at the Rose Hall estate.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Gardens_incident
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the April 1963 dates and casualty figures, stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for the April 1963 Coral Gardens suppression of Rastafari.
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