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    Re: A brief history of seven killings - fiction

    It ain't easy, but it's hard to put it down.

    I finished this book a couple of nights ago. I learned about some of the back story of the historic events on my first trip to Negril in 1984. If you think politics is bare knuckle here, it was god awful in the late '70's early '80's in Jamaica. In one of those elections, something like 700 political murders took place in a population of 2 million. Scale that up to our population and that would be 110,000 killed in an election! Just before we departed for Jamaica, I came across an article in High Times about Negril and how cocaine was having a devastating impact. Well worth the patience to read it through. This is important history to get acquainted with.
    We're all in this together and none of us is getting out alive.

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    I was there from 1969 to 1986 and witnessed all of it. From living in Beverly Hills in Kingston to living in Spring Garden with no electric or water.

    I spent election night 1980 at the Appleton estate.

    I don't think I could even begin to explain how the 70s and 80s were.

    I'm glad they're history and very happy to be back in Jamaica

    Cap
    Last edited by captaind & Linston; 04-01-2015 at 04:06 PM.

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