Parallels?

I wonder if there are some similarities between this film and events in Bermuda during the 1970s.

In this film, Billy Connoly plays a black -bereted revolutionary, who seeks to overthrow British rule on his island, and at one stage takes a vow of silence.

In Bermuda in the early 1970s, a Black Power movement called the Black Berets agitated for independence. In 1972, the police chief was shot dead, the following year the Governor and his aide met the same fate. Following the murder of two shopkeepers later that year, two men were arrested. One was later convicted of the murders of the Governor and the police chief, both were convicted of the murders of the shopkeepers.

Both were generally seen as 'petty criminals', however it seems they both sympathised with the Black Berets. As this link shows, the murderer of the police chief and Governor kept a virtual vow of silence in prison.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharples

The link won't work directly, do a google search on 'Black Berets Bermuda' or one on 'Richard Sharples'.]

The man's silence didn't help him, or his co-defendant, much. Both were hanged, the last people (to date) to suffer that fate on British territory.

Okay, I'll get me anorak....